Epigraphs

This page presents some of the results of our research on epigraphs.

• Epigraph Excel Sheet licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
• Epigraph database (compressed with 7z) licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
• Epigraphs indexed by author (cited and citing)

If you use it please let us know, and if you find any errors please provide feedback. we know that more could be done to add epigraphs, clean the entries we have and analyze the data further, but want to make the data available already, imperfect as it is.

Produced by Graham Matthews and Francis Bond, supported by the MOE Tier 1 Grant Digital Mapping the Literary Epigraph: Quantitative analysis of literary influence using network theory and thousands of epigraphs,

Research questions

• What are the key moral, philosophical, and aesthetic influences on literature through the ages?
• How do different national literatures influence one another and what does the global map of literary "soft power" look like?
• In what ways does visualising literature as a network rather than a set of discreet objects alter our understanding of the history of literature?

We would like to thank the members of the Digital Mapping the Literary Epigraph team. They include: Olivia Djawoto, Sophia Hyder, Crystal Koe Zi Ying, Sherlyn Veronica Leo, Nicole Lien Hui Rong, Kerene Ng Jing Yi, Pearlyn Ng Woong Suang, Phoebe Ng Hui Yin, Ng Shermin, Brennan Tan, Kelsie Tan Kai Xian, Luke Ow Zhi Heng, and Carol Wong Hoi Yu.

References

• Francis Bond and and Graham Matthews (2018) Toward An Epic Epigraph Graph 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018) Miyazaki

Contact

Graham John Mathews and Francis Bond
School of Humanities
Nanyang Technological University