@inproceedings{lassche-etal-2025-novels,
    title = "Why Novels (Don{'}t) Break Through: Dynamics of Canonicity in the {D}anish Modern Breakthrough (1870-1900)",
    author = "Lassche, Alie  and
      Feldkamp, Pascale  and
      Bizzoni, Yuri  and
      Baunvig, Katrine  and
      Nielbo, Kristoffer",
    editor = "Kazantseva, Anna  and
      Szpakowicz, Stan  and
      Degaetano-Ortlieb, Stefania  and
      Bizzoni, Yuri  and
      Pagel, Janis",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 9th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2025)",
    month = may,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Albuquerque, New Mexico",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/2025.latechclfl-1.25/",
    pages = "278--290",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-241-1",
    abstract = "Recent studies suggest that canonical works possess unique textual profiles, often tied to innovation and higher cognitive demands. However, recent work on Danish 19th century literary novels has shown that some non-canonical works shared similar textual qualities with canonical works, underscoring the role of text-extrinsic factors in shaping canonicity. The present study examines the same corpus (more than 800 Danish novels from the Modern Breakthrough era (1870{--}1900)) to explore socio-economic and institutional factors, as well as demographic features, specifically, book prices, publishers, and the author{'}s nationality {--} in determining canonical status. We combine expert-based and national definitions of canon to set up a classification experiment to test the predictive power of these external features, and to understand how they relate to that of text-intrinsic features. We show that the canonization process is influenced by external factors {--} such as publisher and nationality {--} but that text-intrinsic features nevertheless maintain predictive power in a dynamic interplay of text and context."
}