Abstract:In this paper I propose to reconsider theories of diegetic space that rely on explicit framing (i.e., "two people walk into a room" or "in Spain"). Rather than looking for maps, I define space in terms of lexical categories denoting objects. The emphasis on objects leads to a method for literary archaeology, informed by cognitive theory and anthropology. If the universe is made of atoms, a fictional world is also made up of atomic relationships that form basic, stable configurations, or what I call narratological primes. I construct several such basic spatial buildings blocks here—diegetic density and clutter distance. Their application to a well-explored body of nineteenth-century novels challenges several long-standing historical intuitions related to the development of material culture in the nineteenth century.

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走向虚构空间的计算考古学

摘要：在本文中，我建议重新考虑依赖显式框架（即“两个人走进一个房间”或“在西班牙”）的麦片状空间理论。我不是在寻找地图，而是根据表示对象的词汇类别来定义空间。对对象的强调导致了一种以认知理论和人类学为基础的文学考古方法。如果宇宙是由原子组成的，那么一个虚构的世界也将由原子的关系构成，这些原子的关系形成基本的，稳定的配置或我所说的叙事素数。我在这里构造了几个这样的基本空间构造块-密度和杂波距离。它们在十九世纪小说中的广泛探索中的应用，对与十九世纪物质文化发展有关的长期历史直觉提出了挑战。