Close Reading with Computers
Genre Signals, Parts of Speech, and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4735985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M P Eve (0000-0002-5589-8511, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 76-104 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SubStance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0049-2426 • E-ISSN: 1527-2095 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3368/ss.46.3.76 |
| OpenAlex | W2739195263 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas (2004) contains six different generic registers. This article is the first to explore computationally the linguistic mechanisms that create these genre effects. Authorship attribution techniques incorrectly cluster the chapters of Cloud Atlas as distinct 'authors' using anything above the nineteen most-common words. This has implications for understandings of literary style and authorship. The seafaring parts of Mitchell's novel, however, do not correlate with the writings of Herman Melville using Burrows's delta method. Part-of-speech trigram visualization and analysis reveals the unique present-tense linguistic phrasings (NNP NNP VBZ and NNP VBZ DT) that lend pace to the Luisa Rey section of the novel
Art · Atlas (anatomy · Cloud computing · Computer graphics (images · Linguistics · Operating system · Reading (process · Speech recognition · Authorship Attribution and Profiling · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · Geology · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Paleontology · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2020 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |