Karina Van Dalen-Oskam
Biographic Data
| ID | 2041391 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karina Van Dalen-Oskam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karina |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Dalen-Oskam |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DALEN-OSKAM K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wolverhampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7697-4512 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Style, Gender, and Genre
This chapter sums up which textual features beyond words were analysed and how they may play a role in readers’ evaluation of literary quality. It discusses sentence structures, parts of speech (PoS), bigrams, and cliché expressions. It describes how topic modelling was used to analyse thematic differences and how predictive modelling was applied to explore which textual and contextual features most influenced the ratings for literary quality. Me…
Literary Novels Written by Women
Literary novels written by female authors received lower scores for literary quality than those written by male authors. In this chapter, the literary novels written by women are analysed, starting with translations and then followed by Dutch originals. Cluster analysis using Burrows’ Delta, principal components analysis (PCA), and keyword analysis are applied to explore differences in word usage and word frequencies between highly rated and lowl…
The National Reader Survey
This chapter describes how the 2013 Dutch National Reader Survey was organized and what the main outcomes were, in such a way that the survey can be adapted for use in other countries or language areas. It presents the criteria for the selection of the four hundred plus one novels that participants could rate and zooms in on the four main categories of books on the list. This is followed by a description of the kinds of readers that took part and…
Romance, Suspense, and Translations
Translations were usually valued slightly less than Dutch originals. Participants attributed the lowest mean scores for literary quality to E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey. The Dutch publisher marketed the translations of the Fifty Shades trilogy as Literary novels. To find out if this label indeed suits the novels best, the chapter applies cluster analysis using Burrows’ Delta and principal components analysis (PCA). The same methods are used t…
The Riddle of Literary Quality
What is literature? Can we measure ‘literariness’ in texts themselves? The innovative Computational Humanities project The Riddle of Literary Quality asked thousands of Dutch readers for their opinion about contemporary Dutch and translated novels. The public shared which novels they had read, what they really thought of them, and how they judged their quality. Their judgments of the same novels were compared with the results of computational ana…
The Riddle of Literary Quality Solved?
The chapter sums up the main results of the project The Riddle of Literary Quality. For Dutch readers in 2013, genre fiction had no chance of literary fame. Literary novels with a more complex or difficult language, structure, or content received higher ratings. Male-authored literary novels were still more highly valued than those written by female authors and this reflects the Dutch society in which the conventions about literary quality are em…
The Riddle
This chapter introduces the project The Riddle of Literary Quality in which computational text analysis methods were applied to help understand what makes contemporary novels literary or not in the eyes of their readers. The chapter concisely describes the institutional approach of Bourdieu’s sociology of art, the new sociology of art in which the artwork itself is placed back into the picture, and neo-Darwinian thoughts about art. Next follows a…
Literary Novels Written by Men
Literary novels written by male authors received higher scores for literary quality than those by female authors. This chapter focuses on the literary novels written by men, both translations and Dutch originals. Cluster analysis using Burrows’ Delta, principal components analysis (PCA), and keyword analysis are applied to explore differences in word usage and word frequencies between highly rated and lowly rated novels to search for an explanati…
The Riddle of Literary Quality
What is literature? Can we measure 'literariness' in texts themselves? The innovative Computational Humanities project The Riddle of Literary Quality asked thousands of Dutch readers for their opinion about contemporary Dutch and translated novels. The public shared which novels they had read, what they really thought of them, and how they judged their quality. Their judgments of the same novels were compared with the results of computational ana…
Literary quality in the eye of the Dutch reader
Revisiting Style, a Key Concept in Literary Studies
Language and literary studies have studied style for centuries, and even since the advent of ›stylistics‹ as a discipline at the beginning of the twentieth century, definitions of ›style‹ have varied heavily across time, space and fields. Today, with increasingly large collections of literary texts being made available in digital form, computational approaches to literary style are proliferating. New methods from disciplines such as corpus lingui…
The Study of Names in Dutch Literary Works
Literary quality in the eye of the Dutch reader
Revisiting Style, a Key Concept in Literary Studies
Language and literary studies have studied style for centuries, and even since the advent of ›stylistics‹ as a discipline at the beginning of the twentieth century, definitions of ›style‹ have varied heavily across time, space and fields. Today, with increasingly large collections of literary texts being made available in digital form, computational approaches to literary style are proliferating. New methods from disciplines such as corpus lingui…
The Study of Names in Dutch Literary Works
Revisiting Style, a Key Concept in Literary Studies
Language and literary studies have studied style for centuries, and even since the advent of ›stylistics‹ as a discipline at the beginning of the twentieth century, definitions of ›style‹ have varied heavily across time, space and fields. Today, with increasingly large collections of literary texts being made available in digital form, computational approaches to literary style are proliferating. New methods from disciplines such as corpus lingui…
Literary quality in the eye of the Dutch reader
Style, Gender, and Genre
This chapter sums up which textual features beyond words were analysed and how they may play a role in readers’ evaluation of literary quality. It discusses sentence structures, parts of speech (PoS), bigrams, and cliché expressions. It describes how topic modelling was used to analyse thematic differences and how predictive modelling was applied to explore which textual and contextual features most influenced the ratings for literary quality. Me…
Literary Novels Written by Women
Literary novels written by female authors received lower scores for literary quality than those written by male authors. In this chapter, the literary novels written by women are analysed, starting with translations and then followed by Dutch originals. Cluster analysis using Burrows’ Delta, principal components analysis (PCA), and keyword analysis are applied to explore differences in word usage and word frequencies between highly rated and lowl…
The National Reader Survey
This chapter describes how the 2013 Dutch National Reader Survey was organized and what the main outcomes were, in such a way that the survey can be adapted for use in other countries or language areas. It presents the criteria for the selection of the four hundred plus one novels that participants could rate and zooms in on the four main categories of books on the list. This is followed by a description of the kinds of readers that took part and…
Romance, Suspense, and Translations
Translations were usually valued slightly less than Dutch originals. Participants attributed the lowest mean scores for literary quality to E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey. The Dutch publisher marketed the translations of the Fifty Shades trilogy as Literary novels. To find out if this label indeed suits the novels best, the chapter applies cluster analysis using Burrows’ Delta and principal components analysis (PCA). The same methods are used t…
The Riddle of Literary Quality
What is literature? Can we measure ‘literariness’ in texts themselves? The innovative Computational Humanities project The Riddle of Literary Quality asked thousands of Dutch readers for their opinion about contemporary Dutch and translated novels. The public shared which novels they had read, what they really thought of them, and how they judged their quality. Their judgments of the same novels were compared with the results of computational ana…
The Riddle of Literary Quality Solved?
The chapter sums up the main results of the project The Riddle of Literary Quality. For Dutch readers in 2013, genre fiction had no chance of literary fame. Literary novels with a more complex or difficult language, structure, or content received higher ratings. Male-authored literary novels were still more highly valued than those written by female authors and this reflects the Dutch society in which the conventions about literary quality are em…
The Riddle
This chapter introduces the project The Riddle of Literary Quality in which computational text analysis methods were applied to help understand what makes contemporary novels literary or not in the eyes of their readers. The chapter concisely describes the institutional approach of Bourdieu’s sociology of art, the new sociology of art in which the artwork itself is placed back into the picture, and neo-Darwinian thoughts about art. Next follows a…
Literary Novels Written by Men
Literary novels written by male authors received higher scores for literary quality than those by female authors. This chapter focuses on the literary novels written by men, both translations and Dutch originals. Cluster analysis using Burrows’ Delta, principal components analysis (PCA), and keyword analysis are applied to explore differences in word usage and word frequencies between highly rated and lowly rated novels to search for an explanati…
The Riddle of Literary Quality
What is literature? Can we measure 'literariness' in texts themselves? The innovative Computational Humanities project The Riddle of Literary Quality asked thousands of Dutch readers for their opinion about contemporary Dutch and translated novels. The public shared which novels they had read, what they really thought of them, and how they judged their quality. Their judgments of the same novels were compared with the results of computational ana…
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