<div dir="ltr">Seriously. WTF. (resting bitch face)<div><br></div><div>Jean</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 9:31 AM, Mark Hussey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mhussey@verizon.net" target="_blank">mhussey@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-6834004465692087027WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">“<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">The most masculine classic novel written by a woman”<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">As the kids say, wtf?</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Vwoolf [mailto:<a href="mailto:vwoolf-bounces%2Bmhussey" target="_blank">vwoolf-bounces+mhussey</a><wbr>=<a href="mailto:verizon.net@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">verizon.net@lists.osu.edu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Karen Levenback<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 31, 2017 7:14 AM<br><b>To:</b> VWOOLF Listserv<br><b>Subject:</b> [Vwoolf] Virginia Woolf--statistically<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div id="m_-6834004465692087027yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">NPR review of Benjamin Bratt's <i id="m_-6834004465692087027yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_9279">Nabokov's Favorite Word is Mauve: That the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing </i>notes that Virginia Woolf is the writer who uses the fewest cliches.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div id="m_-6834004465692087027yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div id="m_-6834004465692087027yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">In her nine novels, she also uses 116 -ly adverbs per 10,000 words.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div id="m_-6834004465692087027yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div id="m_-6834004465692087027yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">The most masculine classic novel written by a woman is her <i id="m_-6834004465692087027yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_12508">Orlando.</i><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div id="m_-6834004465692087027yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div id="m_-6834004465692087027yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">The Waves</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> is the #1 book with the most 2-word anaphora:  5.5%.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div id="m_-6834004465692087027yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div id="m_-6834004465692087027yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Bratt includes much more as well (Jim Haule take note!).<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div id="m_-6834004465692087027yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div id="m_-6834004465692087027yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Cheers--<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div id="m_-6834004465692087027yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Karen Levenback<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div id="m_-6834004465692087027yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div id="m_-6834004465692087027yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div id="m_-6834004465692087027yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div id="m_-6834004465692087027yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div id="m_-6834004465692087027yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Jean Mills<br>Associate Professor<br>The Department of English<br>John Jay College/CUNY<br>524 West 59th Street, Room 7.63.12<br>New York, NY 10019<br><br></div>AUTHOR OF:</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div>"'With every nerve in my body I stand for peace': Jane Ellen Harrison and the Heresy of War" in <i>Reconsidering Peace and Patriotism during the First World War </i>(Palgrave/Macmillan, 2017)</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319513003" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319513003</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><i style="font-size:12.8px">Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison, and the Spirit of Modernist Classicism </i><span style="font-size:12.8px">(The Ohio State University Press, 2014)</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://ohiostatepress.org/Books/Book%20Pages/Mills%20Virginia.html" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://ohiostatepress.org/Books/Book%20Pages/Mills%20Virginia.html</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">212.237.8706</span><br></div><div><a href="mailto:JEMILLS@JJAY.CUNY.EDU" target="_blank">JEMILLS@JJAY.CUNY.EDU</a><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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