Melodramas of Beset Manhood: How Theories of American Fiction Exclude Women Authors

Baym, Nina

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“…James seems to have been highly progressive in his focus on the female perspective. This view is also supported by Baym (1981), who believes that James posed a continual challenge to the masculinist bias of American critical theory. An interesting aspect to consider as part of this investigation would be to compare James' style to a British reference corpus, given that he spent the latter part of his life in Europe.…”

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Temporal predictive regression models for linguistic style analysis

Klaussner

Vogel

2018

JLM

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Keywords: language change, style analysis, regressionThis study focuses on modelling general and individual language change over several decades. A timeline prediction task was used to identify interesting temporal features. Our previous work achieved high accuracy in predicting publication year, using lexical features marked for syntactic context. In this study, we use four feature types (character, word stem, part-of-speech, and word n-grams) to predict publication year, and then use associated models to determine constant and changing features in individual and general language use. We do this for two corpora, one containing texts by two different authors, published over a fifty-year period, and a reference corpus containing a variety of text types, representing general language style over time, for the same temporal span as the two authors. Our linear regression models achieve good accuracy with the two-author data set, and very good results with the reference corpus, bringing to light interesting features of language change.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 87%

Temporal predictive regression models for linguistic style analysis

Klaussner

Vogel

2018

JLM

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“…Baym explains, ''the idea of 'good' literature is not only a personal preference, it is also a cultural preference'' [8]. Baym advocates that editorial choices regarding anthologized works are influenced both by personal preference and cultural pressure.…”

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Canonized Women and Women Canonizers: Gender Dynamics in The Norton Anthology of English Literature’s Eight Editions

Gualtieri

2011

Gend. Issues

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This article addresses the gender dynamics of the included canonized literature of each edition of the Norton Anthology of English Literature as related to the gender dynamics of the editorial staff, the publication date of each of the eight editions, and the feminist criticism prominent at the time of publication. The project combines quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the construction of the literary canon. The project finds that there is a direct correspondence between the number of women editors and the percent of the total pages of each edition occupied by works by women writers. The project also finds a correlation between the gender makeup of the editorial staff and a leap in included women writers in the fifth edition and the emergence of gynocriticism in the 1980s. The project recognizes the establishment of a separate canon for women's literature that corresponds with this shift. The research indicates that as time passes, the inclusion of women writers in the literary canon and the editorial staff of the Anthology generally increase.

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“…A useful comparison is Nina Baym's (1979) investigation of American literary criticism and the values which it embodies, where she identifies a comparable desire for "local colour" in the evaluation of American literature. Due to a desire to assert their literary (and, of course, political) independence from Britain, emphasis is placed on the rendering of a distinctly American reality.…”

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Schreiner versus Schreiner: A contest of value

Sandwith¹

1994

Journal of Literary Studies

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Melodramas of Beset Manhood: How Theories of American Fiction Exclude Women Authors

Cited by 254 publications

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Temporal predictive regression models for linguistic style analysis

Temporal predictive regression models for linguistic style analysis

Canonized Women and Women Canonizers: Gender Dynamics in The Norton Anthology of English Literature’s Eight Editions

Schreiner versus Schreiner: A contest of value

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