The Tag Glossary: V

Orlando's content is structured by the unique XML tagset described in the Introduction and visualized in the Tag Diagrams. To assist in understanding Search result facets and Tag Search, this Glossary provides definitions for tags and attributes (descriptors associated with tags). Some attributes have set values. These are often explained within definitions of attributes. Other attribute values, such as genre names, are defined within the ontologies of the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory, which hosts Orlando’s production environment. Searches on this page retrieve tags, attributes, and definitions, but not necessarily attribute values.

A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P Q R S T V W

Violence

Machine name
VIOLENCE

 

One of the sixteen structuring big-bucket content tags in BIOGRAPHY, defined as integral to mapping a woman's life. It has no attributes or sub-elements. It is placed in a document according to the broadly chronological sequence of life-events. It represents an early decision by the Orlando team not to separate different kinds of violence by different encoding, but to encompass together institutional, marital, and other violence (marketplace whippings for Quaker preachers, wartime bombing, and family abuse). We are particularly interested in the effects of violence against women on the history of women's writing and the historical, social and political issues surrounding violence against women. This element is not reserved for actual acts of violence, but can include a discussion of the effects, short- and long-term, of exposure to violence. In some cases available data may need to be divided between Violence and some other element, e.g. FAMILY or LOCATION or POLITICS or HEALTH.

Voice or narration

Machine name
TVOICENARRATION


TVOICENARRATION is available within WRITING > TEXTUALFEATURES. It encloses a statement or discussion, and has no mandatory or optional sub-elements or attributes. It addresses the question of how a story is told: who speaks (first-person, multiple voices, omniscient or unreliable narrator, interpolations, use of fictional documents, etc), and sometimes the character or situation of the narrator(s).