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Literature, Lyrics and Lexical Diversity: What Do James Joyce, Sir Walter Scott and the Wu-Tang Clan Have in Common?

Inspired by this fascinating study of vocabulary in rap lyrics, by Matt Daniels at Polygraph, my colleague Derek Greene decided to take a similar dive into our own data.  Which of our 46 novels includes the widest selection of unique words? I’ll let Derek explain this chart in his own words: I looked at the…

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Centrality and Star Trek: a brief diversion from the 19th century to the 24th

  (People who are here exclusively for the 19th century lit may want to look away now!  The rest of you, I promise this is relevant in terms of the project’s methodology… honestly…) So, several people – who are apparently familiar with my interests! – have now linked me to this Star Trek character interaction…

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