text/works

Text/works has the ambition to be the first multilingual online library making available to scholars and general readers collections of French and American Modern poetry (19th, 20th, and 21st Century) in the form of digital critical editions.

The goals of Text/works are multiple.

First, we intend to offer to the general reader authoritative editions of poetic texts and collections, to be read online or downloaded (in XML-TEI and PDF). Contrary to many existing databases, we aim to display the texts we publish with accurate philological care and try to reproduce, as far as possible, their original printed appearance. We will also integrate, whenever possible, genetic data, and collate several editions in cases of variants. For each text, hyperlinked indexes and concordances are to be built, as are various sets of thematic, formal or linguistic annotations.

Moreover, we aim, for the profit of literature scholars, students, and teachers, to develop and make available research tools for text analysis. In a second stage of its development, our library will thus include, for each text, a part-of-speech tagging as well as prosodic and metrical annotations, so as to provide data for searchers interested in a corpus-based approach of modern poetry texts. If the literary text is to offer, in Ponge's words, “à la fois une jouissance et une leçon,” we do hope that our library will, in its modest way, not be completely useless to help the reader delineate a few coordinates of pleasure and enlightenment.

Robin Seguy,
editor     

N.B.: Text/works is a personal project, with all the limitations and imperfections this entails. If you wish to offer suggestions, remarks, criticisms or comments, to collaborate, or to help us, please use the contact link at the bottom of the page.