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.
He's adamant that macroanalysis does not endeavor, nor is it equipped, to identify quality in a work, only trends and similarity, such as the ways that themes and subject matter, whaling for instance, are propagated through the corpora. "Moby Dick has a lot in common with Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket," says Jockers, for instance. "It seems likely that Melville borrowed some of his material from Poe."
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