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View article: Generative Aesthetics: On formal stuckness in AI verse
Generative Aesthetics: On formal stuckness in AI verse Open
This paper examines the formal and aesthetic patterns of AI-generated poems through a series of computational experiments. Through analyses of rhyme and rhythm, it reveals how large language models (LLMs) exhibit a stubborn, formal stuckne…
View article: Phonological and Metrical Variation across Genres
Phonological and Metrical Variation across Genres Open
In this study, we asked whether standard phonological and metricalconstraints proposed by phonologists and metricists are useful inidentifying arbitrary lines of text as metered verse vs. unmeteredprose, focusing on five English-language a…
View article: Canon/Archive : Large-scale Dynamics in the Literary Field
Canon/Archive : Large-scale Dynamics in the Literary Field Open
Of the novelties introduced by digitization in the study of literature, the size of the archive is probably the most dramatic: we used to work on a couple of hundred nineteenth-century novels, and now we can analyze thousands of them, tens…
View article: The emotions of London
The emotions of London Open
A few years ago, a group formed by Ben Allen, Cameron Blevins, Ryan Heuser, and Matt Jockers decided to use topic modeling to extract geographical information from nineteenth-century novels. Though the study was eventually abandoned, it ha…