Statistics of punctuation in experimental literature—The remarkable case of Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Statistics of punctuation in experimental literature—The remarkable case of Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
As the recent studies indicate, the structure imposed onto written texts by the presence of punctuation develops patterns which reveal certain characteristics of universality. In particular, based on a large collection of classic literary works, it has been evidenced that the distances between consecutive punctuation marks, measured in terms of …