A Corpus Study of Accidental Travel (‘Popadantsy’) Novels in Russian

Student: Atnashev Timofey

Educational Programme: Digital Humanities (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2024

This study is dedicated to exploring one of the genres of contemporary literature – time travel novels. Through exploratory data analysis, thematic modeling, and character analysis, the genre-specific features were identified, as well as the characteristics of using digital methods for this research direction, which can also be applied to other genres.

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