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- Berglund, Karl, FD, 1983-, et al.
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Apples and Oranges? Large-Scale Thematic Comparisons of Contemporary Swedish Popular and Literary Fiction
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Ingår i: Samlaren. - Uppsala : Svenska Litteratursällskapet. - 0348-6133 .- 2002-3871. ; 140, s. 228-260
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Karl Berglund, Department of Literature, Uppsala UniversityMats Dahllöf, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala UniversityJerry Määttä, Department of Literature, Uppsala UniversityApples and Oranges? Large-Scale Thematic Comparisons of Contemporary Swedish Popular and Literary FictionThe aim of this article is to compare thematic trends in contemporary Swedish bestselling and literary fiction with the help of a computational method—topic modelling—which extracts content themes based on statistical patterns of word usage. This procedure allows us to identify trends and patterns that are not easily discovered through manual reading. We track topics in two subsets of Swedish fiction from the period 2004–2017: 1) prose fiction on the Swedish bestseller charts, and 2) prose fiction shortlisted for the August Prize (arguably the most prestigious Swedish literary prize). The results confirm several assumptions about contemporary popular and literary fiction, such as more plot-focused themes in popular fiction and themes more connected to settings in literary fiction. But the outcomes also provide new, and more surprising knowledge, such as food and economy being the most biased themes among the non-crime fiction bestsellers, whereas themes concerning nature are most biased in the literary realm. Moreover, themes relating to sex, intimacy, and violence are biased towards literary fiction rather than popular fiction. In the light of our findings, we argue that both popular fiction and literary fiction seem to be characterised by certain thematic attributes that make it relevant to discuss them as genres also on a textual-thematic level.
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- Berglund, Karl, FD, 1983-
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De litterära agenternas växande betydelse
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Ingår i: Bokens och läsandets förvandlingar. - Stockholm : Stolpe. - 9789189069008 ; , s. 47-58
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Berglund, Karl, FD, 1983-
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Selma Lagerlöf och databasen
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Ingår i: Anekdot.se. ; juni:20
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Berglund, Karl, FD, 1983-, et al.
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Tema: Digitala metoder för litteraturforskning
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Ingår i: Samlaren. - Uppsala : Svenska Litteratursällskapet. - 0348-6133 .- 2002-3871. ; 140, s. 192-197
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Dahllöf, Mats, 1965-, et al.
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Faces, Fights, and Families : Topic Modeling and Gendered Themes in Two Corpora of Swedish Prose Fiction
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Ingår i: DHN 2019 Copenhagen, Proceedings of 4th Conference of The Association Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries Copenhagen, March 6-8 2019. ; , s. 92-111
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper explores topic modeling (TM) as a tool for “dis- tant reading” of two Swedish literary corpora. We investigate what kinds of insight and knowledge a TM-based approach can provide to Swedish literary history, and which methodological difficulties are associated with this endeavour. The TM is based on 12- and 24-term chunks of selected verb and common noun lemmas. We generate models with 20, 40, and 100 topics. We also propose a method for a quantitative and qualita- tive gendered thematic analysis by combining TM with a study of how the topics relate to gender in characters and authors. The two corpora contain, respectively, Swedish classics (1821–1941) and recent bestsellers (2004–2017). We find that most of the topics proposed by the TM are easy to interpret as conceptual themes, and that the “same” themes ap- pear for the two corpora and for different TM settings. The study allows us to make interesting observations concerning different aspects of gender and topic distribution.
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