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The Emotion Dynamics of Literary Novels

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02474v1
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 20:39:21 GMT
Title: The Emotion Dynamics of Literary Novels
Authors: Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla, Adam Hammond, Graeme Hirst, Saif M. Mohammad
Abstract summary: We use character dialogue to distinguish between the emotion arcs of the narration and the various characters. Our findings show that the narration and the dialogue largely express disparate emotions through the course of a novel.
Score: 33.974558021764395
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Abstract: Stories are rich in the emotions they exhibit in their narratives and evoke in the readers. The emotional journeys of the various characters within a story are central to their appeal. Computational analysis of the emotions of novels, however, has rarely examined the variation in the emotional trajectories of the different characters within them, instead considering the entire novel to represent a single story arc. In this work, we use character dialogue to distinguish between the emotion arcs of the narration and the various characters. We analyze the emotion arcs of the various characters in a dataset of English literary novels using the framework of Utterance Emotion Dynamics. Our findings show that the narration and the dialogue largely express disparate emotions through the course of a novel, and that the commonalities or differences in the emotional arcs of stories are more accurately captured by those associated with individual characters.

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