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

Joris J. van Zundert, Raymond A. Mar, K.H. van Dalen-Oskam, Emily Temple, Isabel Bowman, Farzaneh Heidari, Ahn T.P. Nguyen

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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.
Originele taal-2Engels
Pagina's119
StatusGepubliceerd - 2020
EvenementDigital Humanities Conference 2020: Carrefours/Intersections - Online, Ottawa, Canada
Duur: 20 jul. 202024 jul. 2020
https://dh2020.adho.org/

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ConferentieDigital Humanities Conference 2020
Verkorte titelDH2020
Land/RegioCanada
StadOttawa
Periode20/07/202024/07/2020
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