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Good Books are Complex Matters: Gauging Complexity Profiles Across Diverse Categories of Perceived Literary Quality
Yuri Bizzoni, Pascale Feldkamp, Ida Marie Lassen, Mia Jacobsen, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Kristoffer Nielbo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04022

Good Books are Complex Matters: Gauging Complexity Profiles Across Diverse Categories of Perceived Literary Quality
In this study, we employ a classification approach to show that different categories of literary "quality" display unique linguistic profiles, leveraging a corpus that encompasses titles from the Norton Anthology, Penguin Classics series, and the Open Syllabus project, contrasted against contemporary bestsellers, Nobel prize winners and recipients of prestigious literary awards. Our analysis reveals that canonical and so called high-brow texts exhibit distinct textual features when compared to …