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Temporal Network Analysis Of Literary Texts

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  • SANDRA D. PRADO

    (Instituto de Física da UFRGS, 91501–970, Porto Alegre, Brazil)

  • SILVIO R. DAHMEN

    (Instituto de Física da UFRGS, 91501–970, Porto Alegre, Brazil)

  • ANA L.C. BAZZAN

    (Instituto de Informática da UFRGS, 91501–970, Porto Alegre, Brazil)

  • PADRAIG MAC CARRON

    (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3UD United Kingdom)

  • RALPH KENNA

    (Applied Mathematics Research Centre, Coventry University, Coventry CV1 5FB United Kingdom)

Abstract

We study temporal networks of characters in literature focussing on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll and the anonymous La Chanson de Roland (around 1100). The former, one of the most influential pieces of nonsense literature ever written, describes the adventures of Alice in a fantasy world with logic plays interspersed along the narrative. The latter, a song of heroic deeds, depicts the Battle of Roncevaux in 778 A.D. during Charlemagne’s campaign on the Iberian Peninsula. We apply methods recently developed by Taylor et al. [Taylor, D., Myers, S. A., Clauset, A., Porter, M. A. and Mucha, P. J., Eigenvector-based centrality measures for temporal networks, CoRR (2015).] to find time-averaged eigenvector centralities, Freeman indices and vitalities of characters. We show that temporal networks are more appropriate than static ones for studying stories, as they capture features that the time-independent approaches fail to yield.

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  • Sandra D. Prado & Silvio R. Dahmen & Ana L.C. Bazzan & Padraig Mac Carron & Ralph Kenna, 2016. "Temporal Network Analysis Of Literary Texts," Advances in Complex Systems (ACS), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 19(03), pages 1-19, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:acsxxx:v:19:y:2016:i:03:n:s0219525916500053
    DOI: 10.1142/S0219525916500053
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