论文题目：Louise or Ferdinand? Exploring the protagonists of Love and Intrigue using social network analysis.
作者：
庞娜娜，山东大学外国语学院副教授，博士，硕士生导师
孙萌，山东大学外国语学院硕士研究生
发表期刊：Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
发表时间：2023年，38(3), 1214–1226（2023年3月27日）
论文摘要：Love and Intrigue is an outstanding work by the German dramatist Friedrich Schiller. This work was initially titled Louise Millerin, which was changed to Love and Intrigue before its premiere. The title Louise Millerin indicates the importance of the female character Louise in the drama. However, is Louise the real protagonist of the drama? Existing research provided no definitive answer to this question. Scholars have not agreed on who the protagonist is in the drama and how to quantify the prominence of the character. To address these issues, this study adopts Social Network Analysis (SNA) to visualize the character network, quantify the centrality of the characters, and perform cluster analysis of the characters in Love and Intrigue. The results indicate that Ferdinand displays the highest prominence and has higher stability regarding centrality than Louise. We explore possible reasons behind the findings. First, the highlighting of the male character Ferdinand may reflect male dominance in the eighteenth-century Germany. Second, Schiller incorporated his personal experiences and emotional preferences into the writing of the drama, leading to his favor of Ferdinand. Third, Schiller may have also been influenced by the style of previous German playwrights. By applying SNA to literary research, this study presents a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the characters in Love and Intrigue and contributes to the research on Schiller’s works.
中文摘要：《阴谋与爱情》是德国戏剧家弗里德里希·席勒的杰出作品之一。席勒在创作初期曾把书名定为《露易丝·米勒》，直至首演前才改为《阴谋与爱情》，可见女性角色露易丝在这部作品中的重要地位。但是，露易丝真的是该剧的主角吗？现有的学术文献没有为这个问题提供确切的答案。事实上，对于谁是主角以及剧本中哪些元素有助于塑造人物的突出地位，学者们尚未达成共识。为了探索该剧的主角，本研究采用社会网络分析再现人物网络，对《阴谋与爱情》中所有人物的中心性进行加权计算和聚类分析。结果发现，费迪南的中心性在大部分情况下排名最高，并且比露易丝具有更高的稳定性。我们探讨了出现这种情况的原因：首先可能是因为席勒在创作中模仿了当时男权占主导的现实生活，其次他将自己的个人经验和情感偏好融入到费迪南的人物塑造中，此外他还受到不同时代德国戏剧创作风格的影响。本研究将社会网络分析法融入到文学研究中，深入挖掘了作品中的人物结构，丰富了以往的席勒作品研究。
论文网址：https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad007
