Digital assemblages with AI for creative interpretation of short stories.

I demonstrate an approach fostering inventive interpretation of short stories in Literary Studies and higher education generally. It involves constructing an 'assemblage'—at its simplest, an evolving network of unusual connections for creative outcome. The assemblage of this article combines freshly...

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Publicado en:Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 657 - 690
Autor principal: O'Halloran, Kieran
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Jun2024
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      ab: I demonstrate an approach fostering inventive interpretation of short stories in Literary Studies and higher education generally. It involves constructing an 'assemblage'—at its simplest, an evolving network of unusual connections for creative outcome. The assemblage of this article combines freshly located research literature, directly and indirectly related to a story's themes, and/or the personality type of protagonists. Importantly, this assemblage also utilizes text analysis software revealing the relatively invisible (e.g. (in)frequent words, parts of speech, and topics) and Large Language Model (LLM) Generative AI to enrich the interpretation. The use of all these elements helps productively exceed initial intuitions about the story, facilitating creativity. I model the approach using Edgar Allan Poe's short story, The Black Cat , whose protagonist is a homicidal psychopath. Specifically, the assemblage here includes relevant software-based research (a corpus analysis of homicidal psychopathic language), non-software-based research (psychoanalytical literary criticism of The Black Cat using the empirically validated concept of transference), text analysis software (WMatrix and Datayze), and the LLM Generative AI, 'ChatGPT' (using the freely available LLM GPT-3.5). One use of this approach is as a pedagogy in Literary Studies employing text analysis software (e.g. on a digital stylistics course). Yet given creative adaptability is a key 21st-century skill, with digital literacy—including the use of Generative AI—an important contemporary competence, and with the short story genre universally known, I highlight too the utility of this approach as a university-wide pedagogy for enhancing creative thinking.
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