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The Novel in the Spanish Silver Age: A Digital Analysis of Genre Using Machine Learning
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Abstract What distinguishes an adventure novel from a historical novel? Can the same text belong to several genres? More to one than to another? Have some existing genres been overlooked? To answer these and similar questions, the author combines methods from Linguistics (lexicography), Literary Studies (gen... view more
What distinguishes an adventure novel from a historical novel? Can the same text belong to several genres? More to one than to another? Have some existing genres been overlooked? To answer these and similar questions, the author combines methods from Linguistics (lexicography), Literary Studies (genre theory), and Computer Science (machine learning, natural language processing). Located in the interdisciplinary field of Digital Humanities, this study analyzes a newly developed corpus of 358 Spanish novels of the silver age (1880-1939), which includes authors like Baroja, Pardo Bazán, or Valle-Inclán. Calvo Tello's key result is a graph-based model of literary genre that reconciles recent theoretical approaches.... view less
Classification
Science of Literature, Linguistics
Free Keywords
Literature; Science; Spanish Literature; Digital Humanities; Theory of Literature; Romance Studies
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Publisher
Bielefeld University Press
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
470 p.
Series
Digital Humanities Research, 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839459256
ISBN
978-3-8394-5925-6
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed