Interpreting and Computing Valence in (Dutch) Literary Studies

A presentation that tells a bit of the history of the concept of valence and the various ways it has been defined. The question is: can it be usefully applied in literary studies? Given the vagueness of the concept and the very different results that a number of valence lexicons give for Dutch narrative texts, the provisional answer is skeptical. Doesn't pretend to draw any definitive conclusions.