"the last leaf" -computer assisted literary criticism
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“The Last Leaf”A New Computer Assisted Literary Criticism
Prepared byVaidehi HariyaniBatch 2015-17
Semester 2Paper 7
Smt.S.B.Gardi Department of English,Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
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Digital Humanities• Digital Humanities
currently incorporates both digitized and born-digital materials.
• Combines the methodologies from the traditional humanities disciplines.
• With tools provided by computing and digital publishing.
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What is Digital Humanities doing in English Department???
• Text – as the most tractable data type.• Long association between computers and
composition.• The Pitch-perfect convergence.• Hypertext and other forms of Electronic literature.• The openness of English Departments to Cultural
Studies.• Interest in e-reading and e-book devices
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“The Last Leaf”
• “The Last Leaf" is a short story
• Author: O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
• Published in 1907 in “The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories”.
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Paint - 18
Window, one, leaf - 15
Last, old, Doctor, Fall - 9
Street, painter, Sick, Chance, lay, Morning - 5
Finish, Spring, Afternoon, Dark, Well and many more - 3
No. of times words used
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e-text of “The Last Leaf”- O’Henry
• The word ‘Paint’ recurring more than any other word.
• It’s recurrence is symbolic.• “Oh, my dear, it is
Behrman’s great masterpiece—he painted it there the night that the last leaf fell.”
• This is possible only if the text is in digital format.
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Method
• The feature as simple as ‘Ctrl+F’ gives us opportunity to find recurrent ‘words’.
• The study of ‘words’ gives us an idea to have critical reading of the text.
• It was a pleasant surprise to find recurrent images of Winter, Window, Night, Dark etc. in the story which opportune us to explore deeper symbolic connection with the archetypes.
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Bollywood Movie Adaptation
• Lootera - 2013 Indian period romantic drama
• Directed by Vikramaditya Motwane
• Partly based on author O. Henry's 1907 short story The Last Leaf.
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Thank You
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