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.- Anthology ID:
- W17-2205
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2017
- Address:
- Vancouver, Canada
- Editors:
- Beatrice Alex, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Feldman, Anna Kazantseva, Nils Reiter, Stan Szpakowicz
- Venue:
- LaTeCH
- SIG:
- SIGHUM
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 33–39
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W17-2205
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W17-2205
- Cite (ACL):
- Conor Kelleher and Mark Keane. 2017. Plotting Markson’s “Mistress”. In Proceedings of the Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature, pages 33–39, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Plotting Markson’s “Mistress” (Kelleher & Keane, LaTeCH 2017)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/corrections-2024-07/W17-2205.pdf