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SUBMITTER: Dexter JP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5402405 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dexter Joseph P JP Katz Theodore T Tripuraneni Nilesh N Dasgupta Tathagata T Kannan Ajay A Brofos James A JA Bonilla Lopez Jorge A JA Schroeder Lea A LA Casarez Adriana A Rabinovich Maxim M Haimson Lushkov Ayelet A Chaudhuri Pramit P
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20170403 16
Authors often convey meaning by referring to or imitating prior works of literature, a process that creates complex networks of literary relationships ("intertextuality") and contributes to cultural evolution. In this paper, we use techniques from stylometry and machine learning to address subjective literary critical questions about Latin literature, a corpus marked by an extraordinary concentration of intertextuality. Our work, which we term "quantitative criticism," focuses on case studies in ...[more]