April 30th, 2012 → 6:39 am @ Lea // No Comments
In my day job as a professor I came across a couple of academic artcles about Shakespeare last week. They involve textual analysis on Shakespeare’s sonnets – where the researcher breaks the text into distinct words and phrases and empirically evaluates them. I found it fascinating, although at the same time somehow blasphemous to break Shakespeare’s sonnets up into mere words and evaluate them that way. What is in a word?