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• W290235536 abstract "PRELIMINARY The Century of Prose Corpus is a machine-readable, half-million-word compilatio of British prose composed or published during the period 1680-1780. One of its two parts (B: 200,000 words) was created on the supposition that certain genres could be found that would be recognized by any reader. After the Corpus was complete and in circulation, we decided to test the possibility that the genres had an existence that could be detected statistically by examining the linguistic microstructure of the texts. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The concept of genre has been part of western literary discussion since at leas the time of Aristotle, who in his Poetics found differences in the works of his contemporaries and predecessors of such a kind that he was able to categorize them and define the resulting categories. These differences were sometimes subjective, such as the description of the protagonist of a tragedy as a great man or of a plot as consisting of a single action, or, on the other hand, objective, such as the technical description of the verse form or the predominance in a literary work of a particular level of the vocabulary (high, middle, or low, which have a more regular existence in classical Greek than in English). In subsequent discussions during the next millennium or two, these distinctions became quite firm as, for example, in the late seventeenth century especially among the French critics, who designated a work a tragedy or other depending on whether it contained the features mentioned by Aristotle and refined by Dacier and others (five acts, peripeteia, and so on). Thus the notion developed that literary writings were of several discrete kinds--something not self-evident or inevitable--and that these could be specified according to their internal characteristics. Indeed, Aristotle himsel at the beginning of the Poetics speaks of categorizing poetry on the basis of the subject, the language, and the conventions. The question may arise: what en is served by this division into categories? Apart from the fact that it is obviously consistent with the well-known tendency of the Greeks to analyze (divide up) all phenomena, it seems that its main purpose must have been the implacable pursuit of the good, a Platonic idea. More practically, a division o works of literature into categories has the effect of making possible a more or less objective (even scientific) literary criticism, a favorite notion of Aristotle's. If it is established that an epic poem must be in hexameters, must have a hero, and must contain an invocation to the muse as well as a number of other features, then it becomes possible to criticize any poem represented as epic on the basis of its possession of these requirements. Thus the pursuit of the good is preceded by an investigation into the nature of the object. That view has been constant in discussions of literary works since the late seventeenth century, even after the boundaries of genre became unstable and new genres (the essay, the novel, the melodrama, the confessional autobiography) arose. And at the present day the concept of genre is still firmly established even as the genres themselves have become thoroughly fuzzy (e.g., the nonfictio novel, the long short story, the prose poem, the epic film). Certainly today's common reader picking up a biography has certain expectations that derive from the conventions of the biography as a genre: that the life of the subject will be narrated more or less chronologically, beginning with birth and ending at death with extensive description of activities and achievements and that source will generally be provided for factual material. Similarly, the reader of a novel, despite the turmoil this genre has experienced, can expect the book to b of certain dimensions (200-400 pages) for reasons that are usually influenced b commercial considerations. Other genres enforce equal discipline on writers and create similar expectations in readers. …" @default.
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• W290235536 title "Quantitative Aspects of Genre in the Century of Prose Corpus" @default.
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