David E. Thomson
List of John Benjamins publications in which David E. Thomson is involved.
Articles
2022 The new monstrous and its resonance with Frankenstein: A method to detail a social mind Scientific Study of Literature 12:1/2, pp. 4–27 | Article
The commonplace that monster stories disguise collective anxiety is evaluated within the frame of nine Artificial Intelligence-themed films produced from 1979 and 2018. I conducted a machine learning classification task with the R open-source platform toward illustrating those films’ resonance… read more
2017 Prelude as lifespan gauge: Quantifying psychological processes over time Scientific Study of Literature 7:2, pp. 232–256 | Article
Through multiple versions of Prelude, readers can follow the progress of a poem 41 years in the making, a period that exceeds by far the timeline of its narration. To do so I employed automated analysis platforms LIWC (Pennebaker, Chung, Ireland, Gonzales, & Booth, 2007a) and SEANCE (Crossley,… read more
2015 Lifespan development in the academy of American poets Scientific Study of Literature 5:1, pp. 83–98 | Article
The present study investigated lifespan writing tendencies among members of the Academy of American Poets (N = 411). All original English language poems (N = 2,558) available on the Academy website during 2013 were included provided that each poet was represented by at least two poems.… read more