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Seneca's authorship of Octavia and Hercules Oetaeus is disputed. This study employs established computational stylometry methods based on character n-gram frequencies to investigate this case. Based on a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of stylistic similarities within the Senecan corpus,...
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Measuring Literary Quality. Proxies and Perspectives
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Computational studies of literature use proxies like sales numbers, human judgments, or canonicity to estimate literary quality. However, many quantitative use one such measure as a gold standard without fully reflecting on what it represents. We examine the interrelation of 14 proxies of...
on Oct 24
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We are interested in the textual features that correlate with the re- ported impact by readers of novels. We operationalize impact measurement through a rule-based reading impact model and apply it to 634,614 reader reviews mined from seven review platforms. We compute co-occurrences of...
on Oct 17
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Neither Telling nor Describing. Reflective Passages and Perceived Reflectiveness 1700–1945
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The paper analyses within-fiction reflections in 250 years of literary history. To this end, we formalised the concept of “reflective passage”, demonstrate how our annotation categories are deduced from literary theory and derive three subphenomena -- COMMENT, GENERALISATION, and NON-FICTIONAL...
on Oct 8
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The Anxiety of Prestige in Stephen King’s Stylistics
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This paper introduces a term, the anxiety of prestige, to examine thematic or stylistic textual commentaries by generally considered “popular” fiction authors on issues of literary prestige, with Stephen King as a case study. While, thematically, an anxiety of prestige has been obvious in many...
on Sep 28
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Small Worlds: Measuring the Mobility of Characters in English-Language Fiction
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The representation of mobility in literary narratives has important implications for the cultural understanding of human movement and migration. In this paper, we introduce novel methods for measuring the physical mobility of literary characters through narrative space and time. We capture...
on Sep 26
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What's that Scary Sound? Ambient Sound in Gothic Fiction
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This paper presents an approach to operationalizing ambient sound as a literary phenomenon. To illustrate the importance of the ambient soundscape in literary studies, we both manually and automatically detect ambient sound markers and use these annotations to analyze a sample of...
on Apr 18
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InvBERT: Reconstructing Text from Contextualized Word Embeddings by inverting the BERT pipeline
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Digital Humanities and Computational Literary Studies apply automated methods to enable studies on large corpora which are not feasible by manual inspection alone. However, due to copyright restrictions, the availability of relevant digitized literary works is limited. Derived Text Formats...
on Apr 17
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This paper evaluates the usefulness of querying Vasalou et al.’s Privacy Dictionary (2011), a dictionary of 616 words and phrases, in 131 canonical English-language novels from the long 19th century. We evaluate the word frequencies compared with a classification of the novels based on scholarly...
on Apr 16
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In this paper, 32 books by the Swedish writer Henning Mankell were investigated using stylometric methods, to find out whether his style varies in different genres, if his style changed measurably over time, or if his books differ from each other stylistically for other reasons. The results show...
on Apr 15
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To offer a visualization of connotation in the classical poetic Japanese vocabulary of the Kokin Wakashū as an independent supplement for poetic language dictionaries, this paper presents an operationalization to tackle connotations using non-literal elements which are unveiled during the...
on Apr 12
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Gender Depiction in Portuguese
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In this paper, we look at how masculine and feminine characters are described in literature in Portuguese, using a publicly available literary corpus: Literateca. We investigate the words used to characterise human beings, after classifying them in four broad categories, namely those related to...
on Apr 9
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Stylistic History of the Hungarian Novel Based on Sentence Structures
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The paper presents a method for the automatic identification of different types of compound and complex sentences in Hungarian through the analysis of conjunctions and their positions. This method opens up new perspectives in stylometry: on the one hand, conjunctions as function words provide a...
on Apr 5
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In the Atlas of Finnish Literature 1870-1940 project, we extract geographical information from a Finnish-language corpus of literary texts published between 1870 and 1940. The texts are transformed from plain texts to TEI/XML, and further processed with named entity recognition and linking...
on Apr 4
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We present two approaches for the identification and linking of short quotations between scholarly works and literary works: ProQuo, a specialized pipeline, and ProQuoLM, a more general language model based approach. Our evaluation shows that both approaches outperform a strong baseline and the...
on Apr 3