Literary Modeling

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In this course, we will examine the ways in which literature, and literary criticism, can be understood through the lens of modeling. Divided into roughly two halves, the course begins by exploring the ways in which literary criticism (as well as the literature that it investigates) works by creating models of literary, sociological, or historical systems. In the second part of the class, we will explore new techniques of computational modeling and discuss how these new methods both validate, and push back on, the history of modeling in literary criticism.