A quantitative analysis of romanian writers’ demography based on the general dictionary of romanian literature

Abstract

Literature is an essential part of a nation’s cultural identity, and each member of the community should be acquainted with the names and significant works of its most representative writers. In schools, literature is taught in traditional teacher-centered methods, using written literary studies or essays that students often memorize and reproduce. With the development of online environments, there is a need to enhance the teaching process, to shift to e-learning environments by providing online materials, statistical studies, and methods for evaluating the acquired knowledge. For Romanian literature, the General Dictionary of the Romanian Literature (DGLR) is a comprehensive work which includes information on authors, publications, institutions, and literary movements. The work is available in 7 written volumes and through the INTELLIT Web platform will be available online, to the general public, as a learning ecosystem. Besides the original information from DGLR, the platform will include statistical information extracted from the DGLR corpus, such as writers’ demographic information and places visited by important authors with modern visualizations. The purpose of this study is to provide the general audience visual overviews and snapshots of the Romanian literature as a whole.