The Short Stories of Thomas Hardy

Brady, Kristin

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“…Hardy is concerned with the problem of mismatched unions in a very class-conscious society. This argument is supported by Brady (1982), who writes:…”

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Identifying themes in fiction: A centroid-based lexical clustering approach

Omar¹

2021

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In recent years, numerous computational methods have been developed that have been widely used in humanities and literary studies. In spite of the potential of such methods in providing workable solutions to various inherent problems in research within these domains, including selectivity, objectivity, and replicability, very little empirical work has been done on thematic studies in literature. Such studies are almost entirely undertaken through traditional methods based on individual researchers' reading of texts and intuitive abstraction of generalizations from their reading. This has negative implications in terms of issues of objectivity and replicability. Furthermore, there are challenges in dealing effectively with the hundreds of thousands of new novels that are published every year using traditional methods. In the face of these problems, this study proposes an integrated computational model for the thematic classification of literary texts based on lexical clustering methods. This study is based on a corpus comprising Thomas Hardy's novels and short stories. The study employs computational semantic analysis based on a vector space model (VSM) representation of the lexical content of the texts. The results indicate that the selected texts could be grouped thematically based on their semantic content. Thus, there is now evidence that text clustering approaches, which have long been used in computational theory and data mining applications, can be usefully applied in literary studies.

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“…Hardy is concerned with the problem of mismatched unions in a very class-conscious society. This argument is supported by Brady (1982), who writes:…”

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Identifying themes in fiction: A centroid-based lexical clustering approach

Omar¹

2021

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“…Hardy is concerned with the problem of mismatched unions in a very class-conscious society. This argument is supported by Brady [55], who writes: In its subject matter, however, A Group of Noble Dames has interesting links with Hardy's earlier work. The book is one of his many attempts, beginning with The Poor Man and the Lady, to portray the fascination and the difficulty of sexual alliances that cross class boundaries [55].…”

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“…This argument is supported by Brady [55], who writes: In its subject matter, however, A Group of Noble Dames has interesting links with Hardy's earlier work. The book is one of his many attempts, beginning with The Poor Man and the Lady, to portray the fascination and the difficulty of sexual alliances that cross class boundaries [55]. The texts involved in this group highlight the historical development of Hardy as a novelist and it is clear that Hardy was preoccupied with social issues throughout his career as a novelist and prose writer.…”

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Towards Computational Models to Theme Analysis in Literature

Omar¹

2020

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The recent years have witnessed the development of numerous computational methods that have been widely used in humanities and literary studies. In spite of their potentials of such methods in terms of providing workable solutions to different inherent problems within these domains including selectivity, objectivity, and replicability, very little has been done on thematic studies in literature. Almost all the work is done through traditional methods based on individual researchers' reading of texts and intuitive abstraction of generalizations from that reading. These approaches have negative implications to issues of objectivity and replicability. Furthermore, it is challenging for such traditional methods to deal effectively with the hundreds of thousands of new novels that are published every year. In the face of these problems, this study proposes an integrated computational model for the thematic classifications of literary texts based on lexical clustering methods. As an example, this study is based on a corpus including Thomas Hardy's novels and short stories. Computational semantic analysis based on the vector space model (VSM) representation of the lexical content of the texts is used. Results indicate that the selected texts were thematically grouped based on their semantic content. It can be claimed that text clustering approaches which have long been used in computational theory and data mining applications can be usefully used in literary studies.

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“…The story could be said to be about two things. Firstly, it depicts the typical Hardyesque theme of good and evil, innocence and cynicism, and so on conveyed through interpersonal relationships at the hands of fate (Brady 1982). Secondly, the story is about a supernatural phenomenon (the withered arm) and the effects this has on the people in the story.…”

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What Lies Beneath the Stated Meanings: a Transactional View of Language Learners Making Meaning with Texts

Marianne¹

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<p>This thesis reports on a year long case study conducted into the processes and products of English Second Language (ESL) learners reading fiction texts for pleasure in a high school extensive reading program. Although 'extensive reading' is usually associated with interactive language learning perspectives such as 'Second Language Acquisition' (for one view within this perspective see Krashen [1982]), a different theoretical perspective was applied in the present study. Louise Rosenblatt's transactional theory of reader response is used to analyse and discuss data made about teenagers reading for pleasure in an extensive reading program. At the heart of Rosenblatt's transactional theory is the assumption that every reading event is unique to the person, text and context of that reading experience. To understand what it means to make meaning with a text, each of those things must be considered. Thus in order to better understand ESL learners' processes and products of reading for pleasure, this thesis provides a fine grained, deep description of how one reader made meaning with texts. This description is contextualised and enriched through the inclusion of case study data from other ESL and native English speaker participants. By focusing on one reader, the complexity of the interrelationships of reader, text and context are amply demonstrated. This, it will be argued, provides a valuable lens through which teachers and researchers may view other readers, other texts and other contexts. Conclusions drawn from this study will claim that Rosenblatt's transactional theory not only readily facilitates language learning goals (for example, extensive use of the target language) but importantly provides another perspective, apart from the predominant interactive language learning perspectives, on what it might mean for readers to make meaning with texts read for pleasure. Understanding the processes and products of reading for pleasure from a transactional view has pedagogical import for the utilization of extensive reading programs, and perhaps most importantly, for the intellectual development of second language learners.</p>

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The Short Stories of Thomas Hardy

Cited by 14 publications

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Identifying themes in fiction: A centroid-based lexical clustering approach

Identifying themes in fiction: A centroid-based lexical clustering approach

Towards Computational Models to Theme Analysis in Literature

What Lies Beneath the Stated Meanings: a Transactional View of Language Learners Making Meaning with Texts

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