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Typicality in the U.S. Novel

The talk below was originally scheduled to be given as a lightning talk at DH2020. We have adapted it here for the new virtual conference. You can follow along with our slides here. For a discipline committed to rejecting reductionism,

Erik Fredner July 18, 2020July 18, 2020 projects, typicality Read more

Writing about Epidemic

This project started life as a “what to do while we’re all stuck inside” activity—starting a project on writing and disease seemed like it would be a useful way of channeling our restlessness into something productive. This isn’t a “coronavirus”

Matt Warner March 30, 2020March 30, 2020 projects Read more

Star Texts: A Case Study in Harper’s and Vogue

In an early scene from Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a casting agent warns the former star of a hit TV western against the kind of cameo roles he’s been taking since his show was canceled. Short

Charlotte Lindemann February 7, 2020February 8, 2020 projects Read more

Lit Lab @ MLA2020

Attending MLA 2020 in Seattle? Mark your dance cards for these panels and roundtable featuring current Lit Lab researchers, alums, and affiliates. We hope to see you in Seattle!   THURSDAY, 9 January   Session #165: Digital Humanities and Nathaniel

Laura McGrath January 8, 2020 events, lab_infrastructure Read more

Finding needles in 34 million haystacks

We are working on a new collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution about the histories of fame and celebrity in the United States. To ground ourselves in public discourse surrounding these topics, we began by analyzing ProQuest’s Historical Newspapers corpus. Working

Erik Fredner November 9, 2019 celebrity, collaboration, technical_details Read more

Popularity/Prestige: A New Canon

Shortly after the Lab released my recent pamphlet on the structure of the literary canon, New York magazine ran an article about the 21st century canon, in which a panel of judges pick an early version of the literary canon

JD Porter October 29, 2018October 29, 2018 pop-prestige Read more

The Space of Poetic Meter

One of the goals of the Techne blog as a whole is to highlight technical issues in Digital Humanities—the kinds of in-the-weeds ideas that are interesting to specialists but don’t necessarily make the cut of a final paper. It’s easy

JD Porter March 5, 2018March 5, 2018 critical_discussion, poetry Read more

The (weird) distributions of function words across novels

Last week I looked at some of the clusters of words that fluctuate together across narrative time in the Lab’s corpus of ~27k American novels. A lot of these are pretty semantically “legible,” in the sense that it’s not hard

David McClure August 10, 2017April 9, 2018 experiments Read more

A hierarchical cluster of words across narrative time

I wanted to pick back up quickly with that list of the 500 most “non-uniform” words at the end of the last post about word distributions across narrative time in the American novel corpus. Before, I just put these into

David McClure July 31, 2017August 1, 2017 experiments Read more

Distributions of words across narrative time in 27,266 novels

Over the course of the last few months here at the Literary Lab, I’ve been working on a little project that looks at the distributions of individual words inside of novels, when averaged out across lots and lots of texts.

David McClure July 10, 2017July 10, 2017 experiments Read more
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