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Repetition and Innovation in Dramatic Texts. An Attempt to Measure the Degree of Novelty in Character's Speech

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: In the following, we examine how innovative dramatic characters are in relation to each other, i.e., whether they tend to repeat the utterances of others or introduce new information to the discourse of the play. Our method captures the role of characters in this discourse, and through pairwise comparisons, we can also construct networks that represent character relationships in a new way compared to existing approaches. By examining some of Shakespeare's plays, we also identify general patterns regarding the structural differences of the networks and gender roles in comedies and tragedies/non-comedies.

Source: Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

DOI: 10.48694/jcls.3923

Authors: Botond Szemes, Mihály Nagy

Institutions: Institute for Literary Studies, ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Research Network, Eötvös Loránd University

Language: English

Topic: Digital Humanities and Scholarship

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W6910904305

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