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SUBMITTER: Hughes JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3356644 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hughes James M JM Foti Nicholas J NJ Krakauer David C DC Rockmore Daniel N DN
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120430 20
Literature is a form of expression whose temporal structure, both in content and style, provides a historical record of the evolution of culture. In this work we take on a quantitative analysis of literary style and conduct the first large-scale temporal stylometric study of literature by using the vast holdings in the Project Gutenberg Digital Library corpus. We find temporal stylistic localization among authors through the analysis of the similarity structure in feature vectors derived from co ...[more]