Moretti argues there is at least one “consequence of [the network model] approach: once you make a network of a play, you stop working on the play proper, and work on a model instead: you reduce the text to characters and interactions, abstract them from everything else, and this process of reduction and abstraction makes Read More
Maybe we should chat about this: “Empirical assessment of emotions in literary texts has sometimes relied on human annotation” but now an algorithmic “system determines which of the words exist in our emotion lexicon and calculates ratios such as the number of words associated with an emotion to the total number of emotion words in the text” for novels, Shakespeare, Read More
In his analysis of paraphrase, Harman argues that “[t]here is no reason to think that any philosophical statement has an inherently closer relationship with reality than its opposite, since reality is not made of statements” (14). Fairy tales make obvious Harman’s warning that metaphysical and ontological realities are not made of or reducible to statements: Read More