Make it explicit: documenting interpretations of literary fictions with conceptual formal models (MITE)
MITE is a two-years research project funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) through the PRIN 2022 PNRR call.
Our goal is to establish the foundational principles for documenting and analyzing observational data in the human sciences. This includes hypothetical and partial data produced through various research methodologies and conceptual systems. Specifically, we focus on the interpretation of female characters in some episodes of Medieval Italian Literature across different epochs and cultures.
To achieve this, we propose a formal framework based on ontological modeling to provide a conceptual setting for representing and analyzing literary interpretational data resulting from literary scholarship and criticism. This framework will also introduce a novel approach to characterizing literary characters, intersecting philosophy, literary studies, and criticism.
Through a comprehensive study on the modeling of observational data, MITE aims to support the creation of a novel generation of computational artefacts to enable the documentation, analysis, and sharing of diverse critical perspectives, reflecting the pluralism of debates in research.
