Features of Timelessness: Intermediate Report on a Quest for Stylistic Features that Mark Literary Canonicity

TY - CONF

T1 - Features of Timelessness

T2 - Digital Humanities Conference 2020

AU - van Zundert, Joris J.

AU - Mar, Raymond A.

AU - van Dalen-Oskam, K.H.

AU - Temple, Emily

AU - Bowman, Isabel

AU - Heidari, Farzaneh

AU - Nguyen, Ahn T.P.

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - We report on our ongoing quest to establish a validated complex of stylistic features that act as markers for literary canonicity, in specific contexts. Currentely we present a stylometric analysis of literature investigating the stylistic markers that differentiate former bestsellers from fiction that remains popular across several decades using a TfIdf vectorization of texts and UMAP dimenision reduction approach. We find that especially a greater variation in sentence length is associated with the chances of a novel to remain popular.

AB - We report on our ongoing quest to establish a validated complex of stylistic features that act as markers for literary canonicity, in specific contexts. Currentely we present a stylometric analysis of literature investigating the stylistic markers that differentiate former bestsellers from fiction that remains popular across several decades using a TfIdf vectorization of texts and UMAP dimenision reduction approach. We find that especially a greater variation in sentence length is associated with the chances of a novel to remain popular.

UR - https://dh2020.adho.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/119_FeaturesofTimelessnessIntermediateReportonaQuestforStylisticFeaturesthatMarkLiteraryCanonicity.html

M3 - Paper

SP - 119

Y2 - 20 July 2020 through 24 July 2020

ER -