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.
As a scholar of Irish literature, Jockers has a particular interest in how nationality and place influence theme and attitude. He can, for example, "look at the way that Ireland gets expressed in literature. And I can break that down further to how a male Irish author writes about Ireland compared to the way a female author writes about Ireland. … [Or] when writers have set their fiction in Rome and they're talking bout Catholicism, what is the attitude being expressed toward that, and how does that change when the setting is no longer Rome but Dublin, Ireland?"
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