We describe here a method for discovering imitative textual allusions in a large collection of Classical Latin poetry. In translating the logic of literary allusion into computational terms, we include not only traditional IR variables such as token similarity and ngrams, but also incorporate a comparison of syntactic structure as well. This provides a more robust search method for Classical la...

How might a novel play tennis? In New York Times essay on Roger Federer, David Foster Wallace reflects how the climactic topspin lob that won Wimbledon for Federer in 2006 was product of narrative, reliant sequence bluffs, building up to final unreturnable shot whose genius lay its ‘unimaginable angle.’ Tennis becomes fiction here, both sense is unreal and it Rafael Nadal’s imagination ultimate...

My colleague Kenneth A. Strand and I have published previously in A USS two studies on the literary form of Rev 18.' In those two studies, that chapter was found to be a discrete literary unit consisting of seven hymns of judgment upon the impure woman of the prophecy, called "Babylon the Great." These seven hymns are distributed in chiastic order according to both their form (Shea) and their t...