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Distant Horizons: Digital Evidence and Literary Change

Ted Underwood
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The article was published on 2019-02-14 and is currently open access. It has received 57 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Literary criticism & Cultural analytics.

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Literary Event Detection

TL;DR: This work presents a new dataset of literary events—events that are depicted as taking place within the imagined space of a novel and applies this model to a corpus of novels split across two dimensions—prestige and popularity—and demonstrates that there are statistically significant differences in the distribution of events for prestige.
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An Annotated Dataset of Coreference in English Literature

TL;DR: A new dataset of coreference annotations for works of literature in English, covering 29,103 mentions in 210,532 tokens from 100 works of fiction published between 1719 and 1922, is presented.
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Wattpad as a resource for literary studies. Quantitative and qualitative examples of the importance of digital social reading and readers' comments in the margins.

TL;DR: An educational outcome suggests that readers who engage in Teen Fiction learn to read Classics and to judge books not only in direct emotional response to character’s behaviour, but focusing more on contextualised interpretation of the text.
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Speech-bundles in the 19th-century English novel:

TL;DR: This article propose a lexico-grammatical approach to speech in fiction based on the centrality of "fictional speech-bundles" as the key element of fictional talk, and identify fictional speech bundles.
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Computational Social Science and the Study of Political Communication

TL;DR: The challenges and opportunities of developing, synthesizing, and applying data collection and analysis techniques relying primarily on computational methods and tools to answer substantive theory-driven questions in the field of political communication are mapped.