Dialogi.ca and Voyant are literature analysis tools and methodologies created by Geoffrey Rockwell and Stéfan Sinclair. Here's an intro video. There's a lot to explore - and explore you should, because the site and software offer a refreshing perspective on literary analysis. They use an application called Voyant that takes a text and provides word clouds, word counts, graphs of related words, and more. The idea is that these resources are used as a starting point for dialogue about the texts, as described in these walk-though background papers or web sites. This dialogue can be caputured in a Spyral document (Spyral is similar to Jupyter Notebook). There's more being added every day on their Twitter site. It occurs to me that this would be a great tool for self reflection on one's own writing, as I can do here with this analysis.
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