Distribution of Allusions in British Modernist Poetry: a Statistical Approach
The article aims at revealing the peculiarities of allusions in the British poetry referring to the Modernist Period. It differed from the previous literary period in rejecting the established norms of traditional writing and forms of expressions, breaking the unity of an author and a reader, rebelling against established thinking and doctrines. Since each literary text is connected with its predecessors by various forms of intertextuality, allusion manifests itself as one of the means that help to identify the stylistic features of the analysed period and shed the light on the connection between the genre of a literary work and the density of allusive means in the texts of various authors. Unlike most other stylistic analyses of the intertextual elements, the present article demonstrates the use of statistical methods, mainly the Student’s t-test, sufficient enough to receive objective results.
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