Introducing the "Corpus of the Canon of Western Literature": A Corpus for Culturomics and Stylistics.
- Author / Editor
- Green, Clarence.
Introducing the "Corpus of the Canon of Western Literature": A Corpus for Culturomics and Stylistics.
- Published
- Language and Literature 26.4 (2017): 282-99.
- Description
- Introduces a "Corpus of the Canon of Western Literature" (CCWL) based on Harold Bloom's "The Western Canon" and utilizes corpus stylistics to "operationalize" the argued coherence of the western canon. Using CT as an example, illustrates how tagging was less accurate with texts written before 1800. Also reveals that TC was found to have one of the shortest mean word lengths and narrowest vocabulary ranges in the poetry analyzed in the CCWL, while CT had one of the longest mean sentence lengths.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
Troilus and Criseyde
Canterbury Tales--General