1st Edition
The Riddle of Literary Quality A Computational Approach
By Karina Dalen-Oskam
Copyright 2023
232 Pages
by
Amsterdam University Press
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... Read more
1 The Riddle 2 The National Reader Survey 3 Romance, Suspense, and Translations 4 Literary Novels Written by Women 5 Literary Novels Written by Men 6 Style, Gender, and Genre 7 The Riddle of Literary Quality Solved? Appendix 1: The Survey Appendix 2: The Books Appendix 3: The Website, Bibliography, Tables, Figures, Acknowledgements, Index.
Biography
Prof. Dr. Karina van Dalen-Oskam is head of the research group Computational Literary Studies at Huygens Institute and professor in Computational Literary Studies at the University of Amsterdam. In 2021 she published a longer Dutch version of this book with AUP, Het raadsel literatuur: is literaire kwaliteit meetbaar?
