[Vwoolf] Virginia Woolf--statistically

[Jean Mills]

Seriously. WTF. (resting bitch face)

Jean

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 9:31 AM, Mark Hussey <mhussey at verizon.net> wrote:

> “The most masculine classic novel written by a woman”
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> As the kids say, wtf?
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> *From:* Vwoolf [mailto:vwoolf-bounces+mhussey=verizon.net at lists.osu.edu] *On
> Behalf Of *Karen Levenback
> *Sent:* Friday, March 31, 2017 7:14 AM
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> *Subject:* [Vwoolf] Virginia Woolf--statistically
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> NPR review of Benjamin Bratt's *Nabokov's Favorite Word is Mauve: That
> the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing *notes
> that Virginia Woolf is the writer who uses the fewest cliches.
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> In her nine novels, she also uses 116 -ly adverbs per 10,000 words.
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> The most masculine classic novel written by a woman is her *Orlando.*
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> *The Waves* is the #1 book with the most 2-word anaphora:  5.5%.
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> Bratt includes much more as well (Jim Haule take note!).
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> Cheers--
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> Karen Levenback
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Jean Mills
Associate Professor
The Department of English
John Jay College/CUNY
524 West 59th Street, Room 7.63.12
New York, NY 10019

AUTHOR OF:

"'With every nerve in my body I stand for peace': Jane Ellen Harrison and
the Heresy of War" in *Reconsidering Peace and Patriotism during the First
World War *(Palgrave/Macmillan, 2017)
http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319513003

*Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison, and the Spirit of Modernist
Classicism *(The Ohio State University Press, 2014)
https://ohiostatepress.org/Books/Book%20Pages/Mills%20Virginia.html

212.237.8706
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