Modeling Conflict:Representations of Social Groups in Present-Day Dutch Literature
This essay responds to a lack of scholarly attention for conflict as a narrative mechanism since the formalist models of Vladimir Propp and Algirdas Julien Greimas. Building on recent developments within cultural analytics, the essay argues for a new understanding of narrative conflict by integrating classic narratological models with data-driven, statistical methods. It does so by (a) proposing two computational models of conflict based on theoretical insights from narratology, conflict studies, and network theory, (b) applying those models to a sample corpus of 170 present-day Dutch novels,... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2021 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Smeets , R , De Pourcq , M & van den Bosch , A 2021 , ' Modeling Conflict : Representations of Social Groups in Present-Day Dutch Literature ' , Journal of Cultural Analytics , vol. 6 , pp. 1-31 . https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.24722 |
Schlagwörter: | social network analysis / Dutch literature / conflict / narratology / literary characters |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27414398 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://pure.knaw.nl/portal/en/publications/415c6808-142d-4ddc-88a9-9855377bf00c |
This essay responds to a lack of scholarly attention for conflict as a narrative mechanism since the formalist models of Vladimir Propp and Algirdas Julien Greimas. Building on recent developments within cultural analytics, the essay argues for a new understanding of narrative conflict by integrating classic narratological models with data-driven, statistical methods. It does so by (a) proposing two computational models of conflict based on theoretical insights from narratology, conflict studies, and network theory, (b) applying those models to a sample corpus of 170 present-day Dutch novels, and (c) briefly illustrating the narratological value of the results by interpreting the representation of social groups in two novels from the corpus – Bart Koubaa’s De Brooklynclub (2012) and Leon de Winter’s VSV (2012) – in light of the statistical patterns found for the corpus as a whole. The analyses of dyadic (two characters) and triadic (three characters) conflict leads to two central conclusions: 1) lower educated characters are more dominant in dyadic conflicts and 2) the majority of triadic conflicts exist in a state of social balance.