dc.contributor.advisor | Flesch, William | |
dc.contributor.author | Grietzer, Peli | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-17T14:17:50Z | |
dc.date.created | 2017-11 | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-09-08 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:39988028 | * |
dc.description.abstract | This dissertation will present a mathematically informed interpretation of a classically romantic literary-theoretic thesis: that a work of literature can aesthetically communicate an ineffably complex holistic understanding of the real world, which we might call the work’s ‘aesthetic meaning.’ Drawing on a generalization of ‘deep learning’ (“artificial intuition”) systems and on elementary algorithmic information theory, we describe a kind or aspect of aesthetic meaning – ‘ambient meaning’ – that may have a special resonance with Modernist and avant-garde approaches to aesthetic meaning, as well as with the concepts of aesthetically sophisticated cultural-materialist literary criticism of the kind that critics like Sianne Ngai or Raymond Williams practice. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Comparative Literature | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dash.license | LAA | |
dc.subject | Literature, Comparative | |
dc.subject | Artificial Intelligence | |
dc.title | Ambient Meaning: Mood, Vibe, System | |
dc.type | Thesis or Dissertation | |
dash.depositing.author | Grietzer, Peli | |
dc.date.available | 2019-05-17T14:17:50Z | |
thesis.degree.date | 2017 | |
thesis.degree.grantor | Graduate School of Arts & Sciences | |
thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | |
thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Schnapp, Jeffrey | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Burt, Steph | |
dc.type.material | text | |
thesis.degree.department | Comparative Literature | |
dash.identifier.vireo | http://etds.lib.harvard.edu/gsas/admin/view/1895 | |
dc.description.keywords | AI; Literature | |
dash.author.email | peligrietzer@gmail.com | |