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Character Constellations : Representations of Social Groups in Present-Day Dutch Literary Fiction /

Fiction has a major social impact, not least because it co-shapes the image that society has of various social groups. Drawing on a collection of 170 contemporary Dutch-language novels, 'Character Constellations' presents a range of data-driven, statistical models to study depictions of ch...

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Autor principal: Smeets, Roel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leuven (Belgium) : Leuven University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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