Plotting Markson's 'Mistress'
Computation and Language
2019-05-20 v1 Artificial Intelligence
Abstract
The post-modern novel 'Wittgenstein's Mistress' by David Markson (1988) presents the reader with a very challenging non linear narrative, that itself appears to one of the novel's themes. We present a distant reading of this work designed to complement a close reading of it by David Foster Wallace (1990). Using a combination of text analysis, entity recognition and networks, we plot repetitive structures in the novel's narrative relating them to its critical analysis.
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@article{arxiv.1905.07185,
title = {Plotting Markson's 'Mistress'},
author = {Kelleher Conor and Mark T. Keane},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.07185},
year = {2019}
}
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7 pages