Quantitative Analysis of Literary Texts: Computational Approaches in Digital Humanities Research

Abstract

Objective: The aim of this paper is to show how computing techniques bring new ways of improving text understanding and the text structure. Through using statistical analysis methods, scholars try to dig out the covert patterns, trends, and meanings found in literary texts in order to improve our comprehension of literature in the digital realm.

Methodology: From the methodological point of view, the article delves into various quantitative analysis methods, including text mining, natural language processing (NLP), network analysis, and corpus linguistics. This way of working embraces computational devices and programs to explore large volumes of literary texts and to obtain significant information, notice linguistic patterns, and visualize many connections within the texts.

Results and Discussion: The computational results and discussion part conveys findings from applied computational techniques to literary texts, which include word frequency analysis, stylometric analysis, and sentiment analysis. Frequency word analysis provides us with the idea of prominent principles and points of emphasis within the texts, whereas the stylometric analysis gives us the author's writing style and linguistic features. Sentiment analysis is to measure the sentiment levels within the texts, that being emotional tones, which in turn reveal affective dimensions as well as thematic content.

Conclusion: The incorporation of the quantitative analysis methods into literary studies determines a notable progress of Digital Humanities as a field. Through merging traditional qualitative way with computational tools and methodologies, researchers make it possible to explore intricacies of literary texts, thus bringing about interdisciplinary collaborations and providing more easy access to literary knowledge. Digital humanities continues to be a developing field and quantitative analysis is a proof and a show of powering of technology in revolutionizing how we view modern literature and culture.