For my Final Project I set out to answer the research question I have been attempting to tackle all semester. My question deals with the core ideas and metaphors represented in both C.S. Lewis’s and J.R.R. Tolkien’s magna opera. Both writers were heavily influenced by their beliefs, TolkienĀ a devout Catholic his entire life, is a […]
A Reflection on Machine Reading and Subjectivity
After a long period of deep pensive contemplation, I have emerged from my thoughts with a new found perspective on not only the digital marking of texts, but digital text reading as a discipline. The prompt for this blog asked “How has the process of stylometry and marking up affected your understanding of the corpus?”, […]
Sentiment Analysis: Can Machines Read Emotions
“It is manifestly impossible to read everything, and it has always been so. The utility of the digital corpus— despiteĀ its vaunted claims of “increased access”— only serves to make the impossibility of comprehensive reading more apparent.” Of all the articles we have read, I believe this is the more relevant, insightful, and true statement […]