Tag Archives: Structuralism

Interpreting Lit by Computer

A new study purports to “reveal what exactly it is about popular stories that makes us love them most.” Your own explanations about why you love the characters you do are for more revealing. I include David Lodge’s mockery of such computer studies in his novel “Small World.”

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Detecting the Person behind the Poetry

What we find when we look for the person behind the literary work.

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