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I want to show you how you can
use the Digital Yoknapatawpha

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resource to analyze
"A Rose for Emily"

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as a work of Gothic literature.

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I'm on the homepage
for the resource,

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and I'm going to click on
the bookshelf at the bottom

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of the page and select
the particular text:

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"A Rose for Emily."

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This generates a map of
Faulkner's fictional county

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of Yoknapatawpha, which plots
the locations from the story.

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The map feature enables
you to visualize

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how Faulkner's fictions
travel across space and time.

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I want to now show you
a few features that

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can help you analyze the
text as Gothic literary work.

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First of all, I'd like to
focus on the role of time

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in the story, and
for this I'm going

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to use the timelines
beneath the map.

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I'm going to lower
the speed of these

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and play through the events
of the story in page order.

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You can see that as I do this
that each event highlights

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the location where it takes
place in red on the map.

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This location then turns
purple as the timeline moves

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onto the next event.

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The same thing happens on the
timeline bar in the center.

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I'm going to reset the map
and play through the events

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one more time in page order.

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And as I do this I want you to
look at the chronological order

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timeline on the very bottom.

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You can see that as the events
move through in page order,

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the chronological order
timeline at the very bottom

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leaps back and forth.

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This shows you visually how much
modernist narratives disrupt

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chronology.

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And this is also
a typical feature

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of Gothic literature,
which often

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occupies strange temporalities.

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The events have also been
highlighted on the timeline bar

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in purple and red.

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And you can see the
range of the events

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here stretches from
before the Civil War

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up until the early decades
of the twentieth century.

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The black line here indicates
the date when the story begins,

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which is 1924.

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You can see that the vast
majority of its events

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take place in the past, a
past that stretches back

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a considerable amount of time.

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This visually indicates a
feature of the Southern Gothic,

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which is preoccupied with
coming to terms with the past

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and events in Southern history,
such as the era of slavery

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and the Civil War, in
works that explore guilt

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about historical events.

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And from this
timeline bar you can

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see how much the past
haunts the present

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in Faulkner's imagination.

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To further indicate the
role of time in the story,

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I want to use one of
DY's visualizations:

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the narrative analysis feature.

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This generates a series
of graphs to demonstrate

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the narrative structure of "A
Rose for Emily."If I scroll

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down to the bottom, you can
see a graph that shows Event

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Frequency by Date.

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This shows you the most common
start dates for the events

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in "A Rose for
Emily."In this case,

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the most common start date
within the story is 1880:

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14 events have this start date.

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This is 45 years before
the story begins.

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1880 is the year
when the relationship

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between Homer Barron and
Emily Grierson commences.

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You can see how much
this particular story

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is preoccupied with the past.

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I'm going to return to the map
now and reset it to explore

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the role of space in the story.

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You can see when the locations
are plotted how contained

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the events of the story are.

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All the events take place
in the town of Jefferson

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crowded together at the
center of Yoknapatawpha.

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This also fits within
the Gothic tradition,

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as Gothic narratives tend
to focus on characters

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whose freedom of
movement has been

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limited by malevolent forces.

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I can also use the Heatmap
feature to find out

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where the majority of scenes and
events take place in the story.

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The yellow part of
the map indicates

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where the greatest number
of events take place,

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and in this case it's
the Grierson House.

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If I click on the Grierson
House under events,

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you can find a list of all the
scenes that take place there.

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Using the heatmap
further indicates

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the theme of spatial
imprisonment in the story,

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as most of the action
in this Gothic text

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takes place in
just one location.

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I now wanted to focus on
the connection of characters

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to the popular location
of the Grierson House.

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If I click on visualizations,
then go to location-character,

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and click on Bipartite, here
I can use the dropdown menus

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to generate a Bipartite Graph.

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If I click on the text, then
click on characters present,

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and enter Grierson House
under specific location,

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and press search,
this will show me

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all the characters
that have been present

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in that particular location.

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The story initially
describes the house

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as a place that has
been practically devoid

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of human activity.

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When the women at the beginning
of the story go to Miss

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Emily's funeral, they are
said to do so "mostly out

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of curiosity to see the
inside of her house,

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which no one save an
old manservant ...

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had seen in at least
ten years."However,

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this graph shows that many
characters have been present

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in the Grierson
House in the past.

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Within the Gothic
tradition, we can

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say that these characters
even haunt the location.

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I'm going to return
to the map to show you

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how we can explore the use
of Gothic generic conventions

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within the story.

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If I click on search, if I
select "A Rose for Emily,"and

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type Gothic in keywords,
and click search,

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this will pull up all the
events that have been linked

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to the keyword Gothic by
the collaborators on the DY

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project.

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And if I can click
on the MapIt feature,

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I can plot these locations
on the Yoknapatawpha map.

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You can see from this map that
Gothic conventions are employed

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in three locations in
the story: the Grierson

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House, the cemetery,
and the town hall.

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The Grierson House
and the cemetery

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more obviously
connect to the Gothic

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through their
association with death,

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but perhaps the town hall is a
more surprising location here.

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If we click on the location,
and look at the event,

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it will show you the first
words of the event and the page

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on which it appears.

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And if you consult
the event further

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it is clear that this event
employs Gothic conventions.

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Within this event, Miss Emily
writes a letter in response

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to the mayor and alderman's
request that she pay her taxes.

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She sends them "a note on
paper of an archaic shape,

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in a thin, flowing
calligraphy in faded ink."

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Here you can see that
this image evokes

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Gothic symbolism of the
past, decay, and ghostliness.

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The keyword feature
part of the resource

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can help you find those
parts of the text that

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engage with the generic
conventions of the Gothic,

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perhaps in surprising locations.

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I hope this video
demonstration has

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shown you a few ways you can
use Digital Yoknapatawpha

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to explore the Gothic features
and conventions of "A Rose

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for Emily."