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King or no [King]
A discussion of what a “superficial” indicator of literary genre might be — for example, the word “King” in the speech prefixes of Shakespeare’s histories — and why might or might not want to exclude such indicators in the statistical study of genres.
Posted in Shakespeare
Also tagged Docuscope, genre, Google, histories, Jockers, Kaufer, Shakespeare, speech prefixes
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