The Tag Glossary: C

An optional sub-element in BIOGRAPHY > DEATH, it is used to record the cause of an author’s death, where known.

This element belongs to WRITING > TEXTUALFEATURES. It captures the names of significant characters. It has no mandatory sub-elements, although you may want to use this in conjunction with the TCHARACTERIZATION element and perhaps with the TCHARACTERTTYPE/ROLE element. The REG attribute here works the same way as the REG attribute for NAME.

This element is found in WRITING > TEXTUALFEATURES. It captures information about the societal roles of characters. There are no optional or mandatory sub-elements, though this element may be used in conjunction with the TCHARACTERIZATION element and possibly with TCHARACTERNAME. An optional attribute, Protagonist, with values of male and female, is used when appropriate to distinguish protagonists or central figures from others.

This element belongs to WRITING > TEXTUALFEATURES. It captures general and relevant information and comment about those fictional characters who populate an author's work. It contains at least a full statement. It often contains the ancillary elements TCHARACTERTTYPE/ROLE or TCHARACTERNAME, but it has no mandatory or optional sub-elements or attributes.

This sub-element is found within BIOGRAPHY > FAMILY. It captures the fact that a woman had no children. We hope to facilitate research on the material effects of having or not having children on a woman writer's life. This tag systematizes information about women who did not have children. This element also captures discussions of significant issues such as infertility that led to life-long childlessness and how that affected the writer's life.

This sub-element can be found in BIOGRAPHY > FAMILY. It systematizes information concerning the number of children a woman had and is meant to capture issues around children rather than a discussion of specific children. It is placed around the whole sentence describing the number of children she had. It is clearly related to the element CHILDLESSNESS, but it is very seldom that both are used in the same entry.

This element can be found in WRITING > PRODUCTION. It is used to discuss the way in which a work was distributed to the wider world and the breadth of its reach. It captures print runs, comments about bestsellers, belated popularity, and also personal distribution by the author, presentation copies, etc. It has no mandatory or optional attributes or sub-elements.

CLASSISSUE is a significant sub-element in expressed, tag it as BIOGRAPHY > CULTURALFORMATION. It is used to discuss the significance of class in a person's life. In conjunction with the CLASS element, CLASSISSUE allows us to capture nuanced material about how the socio-economic conditions of her family and herself affected her life and writing. We understand that class is a shifting category and that a person's class position changes over the course of her life, for example on marriage. We also understand that class categories are historically and culturally specific. The CLASSISSUE element is meant to capture discussions of these complexities and allow for the historical and biographical specificities of one's relation to class. Within CLASSISSUE, you can if you need to access any of the other subelements appropriate to the discussion of CULTURALFORMATION: CLASS, DENOMINATION, ETHNICITY, GENDER, GEOGHERRITAGE, LANGUAGE, NATIONALHERRITAGE, NATIONALITY, POLITICALAFFILIATION, RACECOLOUR, and SEXUALIDENTITY.

An optional sub-element in BIOGRAPHY > EDUCATION, it identifies significant friends, schoolfellows, or important contacts formed during any phase or mode of an author’s education.

CONTESTEDBEHAVIOUR is located in BIOGRAPHY > EDUCATION. It records instances of significant actions or behaviour in school which was frowned on. This element particularly tracks young women's rebelliousness in the face of restrictive educational institutions. It is placed around the complete sentence(s) describing the behaviour.

PCONTRACT belongs to WRITING > PRODUCTION. It captures descriptions (a phrase or sentence or more) of the formal or informal agreement between a writer and a publisher. It also takes in anything about written agreements around publication, film and translation rights, royalties, etc. Often used within the tag PRELATIONSWITHPUBLISHER. It has no mandatory or optional sub-elements or attributes.

This element is located in WRITING > PRODUCTION. It captures all information about the nature of the copyright of the text and the relationship of the text to copyright. It encloses a phrase or sentence. It has no mandatory or optional sub-elements or attributes.

CULTURALFORMATION, in the BIOGRAPHY section of entries, is one of the 16 major DIV1 content elements defined as integral to mapping a woman's life. It is generally the next element after the BIRTH tag. It refers to the constitution of a British Woman Writer's subjectivity. It can either enclose a general overview of her identity positions or can act as the bucket that holds comment on the more specific elements of RELIGION, CLASS, GENDER, SEXUALITY, RACEANDETHNICITY, and NATIONALITY. This element addresses the imbrication of the triad race/class/gender. We aim to provide our users with two ways of accessing information around issues of a writer's subject positioning. Placing the identifying category elements around her religious denomination (Quaker), sexual identity (lesbian), or nationality (Scottish), for example, will point our end users toward writers whom they may be interested in researching (for example, Contemporary Scottish women's writing). Placing a larger discussion within one of the general sub-elements (CLASSISSUE, RELIGION, etc.) will allow us to extract and compare all significant discussions of certain issues, providing our end users with a complex weave of information through which to analyse the construction of subjectivity.

Relationships

CULTURALFORMATION has two levels of sub-elements. The first set contains the following anchored sub-elements (placed around discussion of issues) which in turn have their own subject-specific sub-elements. The first set includes CLASSISSUE, GENDERISSUE, NATIONALITYISSUE, RACEANDETHNICITY, RELIGION, and SEXUALITY. Whether or not any sub-element from this first set is selected, the following second set of sub-elements is available (placed around the identifying word or phrase): RACECOLOUR, GENDERIDENTITY, CLASS, NATIONALHERITAGE, NATIONALITY, GEOGHERRITAGE, ETHNICITY, DENOMINATION, LANGUAGE, POLITICALAFFILIATION, SEXUALIDENTITY.