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Significant Themes In 19th-Century Literature, Matthew L. Jockers, David Mimno
Significant Themes In 19th-Century Literature, Matthew L. Jockers, David Mimno
Department of English: Faculty Publications
External factors such as author gender, author nationality, and date of publication affect both the choice of literary themes in novels and the expression of those themes, but the extent of this association is difficult to quantify. In this work, we apply statistical methods to identify and extract hundreds of "topics" from a corpus of 3,346 works of 19th-century British, Irish, and American fiction. We use these topics as a measurable, data-driven proxy for literary themes. External factors may predict fluctuations in the use of themes and the individual word choices within themes. We use topics to measure the evidence …
Assessing Value From The Digital Collection End-User: The Western Writers Series Digital Editions Experience, Thomas Hillard, Rick A. Stoddart
Assessing Value From The Digital Collection End-User: The Western Writers Series Digital Editions Experience, Thomas Hillard, Rick A. Stoddart
Rick A Stoddart
How end-users and stakeholders value a digital collection is one of the most compelling questions in library assessment.This presentation reports on a series of interviews with stakeholders and potential end-users of the digital collection “Western Writers Series Digital Editions.” These interviews were undertaken to determine in what ways these digital humanities materials might be used by scholars and incorporated into their research process. Interview participants were identified through scholarly citations and works cited lists. The outcomes of these interviews are supplemented by additional interviews with the editors of the original print editions of the Western Writers Series, as well as …
Assessing Value From The Digital Collection End-User: The Western Writers Series Digital Editions Experience, Thomas Hillard, Rick A. Stoddart
Assessing Value From The Digital Collection End-User: The Western Writers Series Digital Editions Experience, Thomas Hillard, Rick A. Stoddart
Tom J. Hillard
How end-users and stakeholders value a digital collection is one of the most compelling questions in library assessment.This presentation reports on a series of interviews with stakeholders and potential end-users of the digital collection “Western Writers Series Digital Editions.” These interviews were undertaken to determine in what ways these digital humanities materials might be used by scholars and incorporated into their research process. Interview participants were identified through scholarly citations and works cited lists. The outcomes of these interviews are supplemented by additional interviews with the editors of the original print editions of the Western Writers Series, as well as …
The Field In Review: Textual Studies, Performance Criticism, And Digital Humanities, Niamh J. O'Leary
The Field In Review: Textual Studies, Performance Criticism, And Digital Humanities, Niamh J. O'Leary
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Topic Modeling And Figurative Language, Lisa M. Rhody
Topic Modeling And Figurative Language, Lisa M. Rhody
Publications and Research
Located at the center of Jorie Graham’s collection The End of Beauty, “Self Portrait as Hurray and Delay” crafts a portrait of the artist, poised at a precarious moment in which thought begins to take shape. Like Penelope, Graham entertains the illusion, if only momentarily, of a choice between bringing a creative impulse into form or allowing it to come undone. A weaver of language, Graham subtly, deftly, but unsuccessfully attempts to delay the inevitable moment in poetic creation in which complexity of thought adopts form through language, and so realized is also reduced. In The End of Beauty, the …
The Early Novels Database And Undergraduate Research: A Case Study, Rachel Buurma, Anna Levine, Richard Li
The Early Novels Database And Undergraduate Research: A Case Study, Rachel Buurma, Anna Levine, Richard Li
Rachel S Buurma
No abstract provided.
The New England Primer: A Primary Source Website, Adrianne Wadewitz
The New England Primer: A Primary Source Website, Adrianne Wadewitz
Adrianne Wadewitz
No abstract provided.
Digital Humanities: A Resource List, Mark Mcdayter
Digital Humanities: A Resource List, Mark Mcdayter
Mark McDayter
This web site has been designed to provide a quick and simple reference source for information about, and resources for, the theory and practice of Digital Humanities. While it has been assembled for the particular use of scholars and students working in the Digital Humanities at Western University, it is open to anyone, and (it is hoped) will prove a particularly useful resource for those new to the field.