| Description |
1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. The Riddle of Literary Quality -- 2. The National Reader Survey -- 3. Romance, Suspense, and Translations -- 4. Literary Novels Written by Women -- 5. Literary Novels Written by Men -- 6. Style, Gender, and Genre -- 7. The Riddle of Literary Quality Solved? -- Appendix 1: The Survey -- Appendix 2: The Books -- Appendix 3: The Website |
| Summary |
What is literature? Can we measure 'literariness' in texts themselves? The innovative Computational Humanities project The Riddle of Literary Quality asked thousands of Dutch readers for their opinion about contemporary Dutch and translated novels. The public shared which novels they had read, what they really thought of them, and how they judged their quality. Their judgments of the same novels were compared with the results of computational analysis of the books. Using evidence from almost 14,000 readers and building on more textual data than ever before, Van Dalen-Oskam and her team uncovered unconscious biases that shed new light on prejudices many people assumed no longer existed. This monograph explains in an accessible way how the project unfolded, which methods were used, and how the results may change the future of Literary Studies |
| Analysis |
Language and Literature |
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LL |
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Cultural Studies |
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CULTURAL |
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Dutch and The Netherlands |
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DUTCH NL |
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Literary Theory, Criticism, and History |
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LIT |
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Sociology and Social History |
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SOC & HIS |
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Computational Literary Studies, Literary fiction, Bestsellers, Bias, Readability |
| Notes |
"Amsterdam University Press." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-221) and index |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata; online version (viewed November 7, 2023) |
| Subject |
Criticism -- Data processing
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Text data mining -- Netherlands
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Digital humanities -- Data processing
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Dutch literature -- History and criticism
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Literary studies: from c 1900 -
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Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / Fiction Writing.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Publishing.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.
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Criticism -- Data processing.
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Dutch literature.
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Text data mining.
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Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000.
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Literary studies: from c 2000.
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Cultural studies.
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Netherlands.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9048558158 |
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9789048558155 |
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