The novel in the Spanish Silver Age a digital analysis of genre using machine learning

What distinguishes an adventure novel from a historical novel? Can the same text belong to several genres? More to one than to another? Have some existing genres been overlooked? To answer these and similar questions, José Calvo Tello combines methods from Linguistics (lexicography), Literary Studie...

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Main Author: Calvo Tello, José
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld Bielefeld University Press, an imprint of Transcript Verlag 2021, [2021]©2021
Series:Digital humanities research
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:What distinguishes an adventure novel from a historical novel? Can the same text belong to several genres? More to one than to another? Have some existing genres been overlooked? To answer these and similar questions, José Calvo Tello combines methods from Linguistics (lexicography), Literary Studies (genre theory), and Computer Science (machine learning, natural language processing). Located in the interdisciplinary field of Digital Humanities, this study analyzes a newly developed corpus of 358 Spanish novels of the silver age (1880-1939), which includes authors like Baroja, Pardo Bazán, or Valle-Inclán. Calvo Tello's key result is a graph-based model of literary genre that reconciles recent theoretical approaches
Physical Description:468 pages illustrations (some color)