Analysing Italian Renaissance Poetry: the Oxford Text Searching System
David Robey
The paper illustrates how the Oxford Text Searching System (OTSS) can be used for undergraduate teaching, on basis of a trial class Italian Renaissance narrative poetry. It also tries to show with some original analysis system's value purposes research. texts are Luigi Pulci's Morgante, Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando innamorato, Ludovico Anosto's funoso, and Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata Special emphasis is given fact that these constitute together closely interrelated literary corpus. use system shown in relation interpretive questions, including comparative study word lists sorted order frequency, more systematic investigation language style at all three theoretical levels language: sound, lexis, syntax Properly employed, OTSS leads an active, collaborative, discussion-based approach learning
Literary and Linguistic Computing