Computational literary analysis uncovers intersectional identity models in the Yiddish romance Bovo d’Antona, highlighting how digital methods illuminate early modern character construction.
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 .
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