Epic social networks and Eve's centrality in Milton's Paradise Lost.

In this article, we analyze the social networks of Paradise Lost at multiple scales of analysis: from the whole poem, down to the level of the individual book and character, and also through quantitative analysis of social network analysis metrics, to understand from multiple angles how network stru...

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Publicado en:Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 146 - 160
Autores principales: Ruegg, Claire, Lee, James Jaehoon
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Apr2020
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