02837oam 22004574a 450 991050428680332120220804174648.094-6166-412-5(CKB)5590000000629683(OCoLC)1281904714(MdBmJHUP)musev2_98048(EXLCZ)99559000000062968320211102d2021 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCharacter Constellations Representations of Social Groups in Present-Day Dutch Literary Fiction /Roel SmeetsLeuven (Belgium) :Leuven University Press,2021.©2021.1 online resource (1 online resource 252 pages)94-6270-295-0 Fiction has a major social impact, not least because it co-shapes the image that society has of various social groups. Drawing on a collection of 170 contemporary Dutch-language novels, 'Character Constellations' presents a range of data-driven, statistical models to study depictions of characters in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, class, age, sexuality, and other identity categories. Incorporating the tools of network analysis, each chapter highlights an aspect of fictional social networks that affects the representation of social groups: their centrality, their communities, and their conflicts. While reading individual novels in light of emerging statistical patterns, combining the formal methods of social network analysis with the interpretive tools of narratology, this study shows how central societal themes such as (in)equality and emancipation, integration and segregation, and social mobility and class struggle are foregrounded, replicated, or distorted in the Dutch novel.0Showcasing what character-based critiques of literary representation gain by integrating data-driven methods into the practice of critical close reading, 'Character Constellations' contributes to societal debates on cultural representation and identity and the role fiction and art have in those debates.Social groups in literaturefast(OCoLC)fst01122493Dutch fictionfast(OCoLC)fst00899723Social groups in literatureDutch fiction21st centuryHistory and criticismDutch fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismSocial groups in literature.Dutch fiction.Social groups in literature.Dutch fictionHistory and criticism.Dutch fictionHistory and criticism.Smeets Roel1251851MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910504286803321Character Constellations2901676UNINA