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A Distant Reading Model of Intersectional Identity in Fiction: What Constitutes Character in the Early Modern Yiddish Romance Bovo d’Antona?

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: This article illustrates how distant reading methods that take an intersectional approach to fictional identity in medieval and early modern texts can shed new light on the identity models being hailed in these texts. To this end it discusses and contextualises the results of employing mixed-method digital analysis of intersectional identity to the complex and layered fictional world of Elye Bokher’s renowned fifteenth-century Yiddish romance Bovo d’Antona .

Source: Neophilologus

DOI: 10.1007/s11061-026-09880-4

Authors: Miriam Edlich-Muth, Christian Edlich-Muth

Institution: Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Language: English

Topic: Digital Humanities and Scholarship

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,090

Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft