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dc.contributor.advisorFlesch, William
dc.contributor.authorGrietzer, Peli
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-17T14:17:50Z
dc.date.created2017-11
dc.date.issued2017-09-08
dc.date.submitted2017
dc.identifier.urihttp://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:39988028*
dc.description.abstractThis 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.sponsorshipComparative Literature
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoen
dash.licenseLAA
dc.subjectLiterature, Comparative
dc.subjectArtificial Intelligence
dc.titleAmbient Meaning: Mood, Vibe, System
dc.typeThesis or Dissertation
dash.depositing.authorGrietzer, Peli
dc.date.available2019-05-17T14:17:50Z
thesis.degree.date2017
thesis.degree.grantorGraduate School of Arts & Sciences
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy
dc.contributor.committeeMemberSchnapp, Jeffrey
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBurt, Steph
dc.type.materialtext
thesis.degree.departmentComparative Literature
dash.identifier.vireohttp://etds.lib.harvard.edu/gsas/admin/view/1895
dc.description.keywordsAI; Literature
dash.author.emailpeligrietzer@gmail.com


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