Travels with BERT: Surfacing the intertextuality in Hans Christian Andersen's travel writing and fairy tales through the network lens of large language model‐based topic modeling

• Published in: Orbis litterarum Vol. 79; no. 6; pp. 519 - 562
• Main Authors: Tangherlini, Timothy R., Chen, Ruofei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malden Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.12.2024
• Subjects: Andersen, Hans Christian (1805-1875); computational literary analysis; Fairy tales; Hans Christian Andersen; Intertextuality; Large language models; networks; search; topic modeling; Travel literature; travel writing

Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales have garnered the greatest popular and scholarly attention despite the interdependence of works across the broad range of his artistic production. We read Andersen's fairy tales in concert with his travel writing to highlight the intertextual aspects t...