Papers with English literary novels
The Emotion Dynamics of Literary Novels (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | a new study examines the emotional journeys of characters in novels . previous studies have considered a novel as representing a single story arc . |
| Approach: | They analyze the emotion arcs of English literary novels using Utterance Emotion Dynamics . they find that narration and dialogue largely express disparate emotions through the course of a novel . |
| Outcome: | The analysis of English literary novels shows that narration and dialogue express disparate emotions . the commonalities or differences in the emotional arcs are more accurately captured by individual characters . |