Two Views
is about proving things about texts
- Stylistic analysis provides reproducible descriptions of authors style
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- Measurement of surface features allows us to prove more interesting points
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- Reaction to impressionistic reader oriented literary theory
is the rereading a text in ways that help one better understand it
- Text-analysis is only one of many strategies
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- Text-analysis reveals anomalies to be researched
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- Text-analysis is useful precisely because the computer can’t do well what human readers do well, and can do other things well