1. On the Relation of Sound and Suspense in Literary Fiction
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Guhr, Svenja Simone, Algee-Hewitt, Mark Andrew, Scholger, Walter, Vogeler, Georg, Tasovac, Toma, Baillot, Anne, Raunig, Elisabeth, Scholger, Martina, Steiner, Elisabeth, Centre for Information Modelling, and Helling, Patrick
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Paper ,Sound Studies ,Suspense ,and methods ,19th century ,annotation structures ,Computational Literary Studies ,cultural analytics ,Short Presentation ,Literary studies ,text mining and analysis ,systems ,English Novel Corpus ,artificial intelligence and machine learning - Abstract
This paper applies a sound studies approach to a literary studies use case: Using a mixed-methods approach, we investigate whether there is a correlation between the description of sounds and suspenseful text passages in a 19th-century English novel corpus. Our hypothesis is that suspenseful passages contain more detailed descriptions of the story's soundscape than unsuspenseful passages.
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- 2023
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