Fiction Science
In his new book, Macroanalysis, scholar Matthew Jockers applies big data principles to large groups of novels in an attempt to unlock the mysteries of literature.
Following in the scientific — and not uncontroversial — spirit of his colleague, Italian literary scholar Franco Moretti, Jockers' work has focused on the corpus of 19th Century literature available for digital analysis because, at present, 20th Century works are fraught with copyright headaches, and 18th Century work, which is often degraded and published with different font conventions, has a tendency to confuse optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
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