TY - JOUR A1 - Schwan, Hannah A1 - Jacke, Janina A1 - Kleymann, Rabea A1 - Stange, Jan-Erik A1 - Dörk, Marian T1 - Narrelations T2 - Digital humanities quarterly : DHQ N2 - We present findings from interdisciplinary research at the intersection between literary studies, information visualization, and interface design. Despite a growing interest in text visualization among literary scholars, so far, narrative visualizations are not designed to support the particular tasks involved in narratological analysis and often fail to reveal nuanced narratological features. One major outcome of our iterative research and design process is Narrelations, a novel visualization technique specifically suited for analyzing and interpreting narrative levels of a story and temporal aspects of its narrative representation. The visualization provides an overview of the nesting and distribution of narrative levels, integrates the representation of temporal phenomena, and facilitates the examination of correlations between these aspects. With this research we explore how collaboratively designed visual encodings and interaction techniques may allow for an insightful analysis at a high level coupled with a close inspection of text passages. We discuss prior work relevant to our research objectives and explain the specific characteristics of narrative levels and temporal aspects of narrative representation. After describing the research process and design principles, we apply the visualization on a test corpus of eight annotated German short stories and demonstrate its heuristic value for literary analyses and interpretations. In particular, we explore the intricate connections between the literary content of the novellas and their narrative form. KW - Literaturwissenschaft KW - Visualisierung KW - Erzähltechnik Y1 - 2019 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-fhpotsdam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3271 UR - http://digitalhumanities.org:8081/dhq/vol/13/3/000414/000414.html SN - 1938-4122 VL - 13 IS - 3 SP - 1 EP - 27 PB - Association for Computers and the Humanities CY - USA ER -