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Lucic presents at Digital Humanities 2011

Kevin Trainor
6/23/2011  8:00 am

CIRSS student researcher Ana Lucic will be presenting Comparing the Similarities and Differences between Burton Pike’s and Stephen Mitchell’s Translation of The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke at the Digitial Humanities 2011 Conference in Palo Alto on June 21st.  The paper, paper co-authored with Dr. Catherine Blake, explores the degree to which automated text analysis tools can capture the different styles used by Burton Pike and Stephen Mitchell in their respective translations of the only prose novel written by the famous German-language poet Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. An abstract of the paper is available at https://dh2011.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/DH2011_BookOfAbs.pdf.