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The Fictionality Of Topic Modeling: Machine Reading Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire Series, Rachel Sagner Buurma
The Fictionality Of Topic Modeling: Machine Reading Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire Series, Rachel Sagner Buurma
English Literature Faculty Works
This essay describes how using unsupervised topic modeling (specifically the latent Dirichlet allocation topic modeling algorithm in MALLET) on relatively small corpuses can help scholars of literature circumvent the limitations of some existing theories of the novel. Using an example drawn from work on Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire series, it argues that unsupervised topic modeling's counter-factual and retrospective reconstruction of the topics out of which a given set of novels have been created allows for a denaturalizing and unfamiliar (though crucially not “objective” or “unbiased”) view. In other words, topic models are fictions, and scholars of literature should consider …
Beyond Bollywood: Exhibiting South Asian America, Bakirathi Mani
Beyond Bollywood: Exhibiting South Asian America, Bakirathi Mani
English Literature Faculty Works
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Review Of "Empires Of Love: Europe, Asia, And The Making Of Early Modern Identity" By C. Nocentelli, Eric B. Song
Review Of "Empires Of Love: Europe, Asia, And The Making Of Early Modern Identity" By C. Nocentelli, Eric B. Song
English Literature Faculty Works
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Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy Of Rage, Philip M. Weinstein
Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy Of Rage, Philip M. Weinstein
English Literature Faculty Works
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"Born There": Faulkner, Oxford, And Lafayette County, Philip M. Weinstein
"Born There": Faulkner, Oxford, And Lafayette County, Philip M. Weinstein
English Literature Faculty Works
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"Truth So Mazed": Faulkner And Us Plantation Fiction, Peter Schmidt
"Truth So Mazed": Faulkner And Us Plantation Fiction, Peter Schmidt
English Literature Faculty Works
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