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Corsaren: Multimodal Storytelling in Nineteenth Century Danish Satire

Year: 2026

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: This paper presents a first computational study of the Danish satirical weekly Corsaren (1840–1855), a key publication from Europe’s “golden age of caricature”. Satire in Corsaren emerges from the interplay of text and image, requiring readers to navigate shifting layers of critique, irony, and visual metaphor. We approach the journal as an intermedial narrative form, and address in this paper two initial steps towards anchoring image and text in Corsaren to understand how satire is conveyed. We do that through a lexical and semantic analysis of Corsaren's text using text classification tasks, and through an exploration of Corsaren's illustrations using image clusters.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19661362

Authors: Lassche, Alie, Kipke, Marta, Eriksen, Rie, Baunvig, Katrine, Nielbo, Kristoffer

Institution: Aarhus University

Language: English

Topic: Digital Humanities and Scholarship

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7155216281

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