Abstract

Abstract here.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Color
• Chapter 2: Shapes, Bodies, Objects
• Chapter 3: Image

List of Charts, Graphs, Illustrations

• Introduction
• Figure 1: Richards’s Optical Process of Reading
• Figure 2: Source: Rogers, Perception (Rogers)

• Chapter 1: Color
• Figure 1: Base color proportions, by author date of birth, smoothed with a five-year average
• Figure 2: “Post-Impressions of the Post-Impressionists” (The Bystander 375)
• Figure 3: Proportions of the color yellow in novels and poems, according to date of publication.
• Figure 4: The cover of the inaugural issue of The Yellow Book
• Figure 5: Proportions of the color mauve in the Google Books corpus of English Fiction, in the 19th Century
• Figure 6: Walter Sickert, Ennui, 1913
• Figure 7: Colors in To the Lighthouse, plotted in narrative time. For an interactive plot, see ./includes/lighthouse.html.
• Figure 8: Colors in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, plotted in narrative time.
• Figure 9: \(CM_X\) “-ish” Word Matrix
• Figure 10: Color Associations Word Clouds. Click on a word cloud to visualize categorizations of these words.
• Figure 11: Hypernym tree map for red, using WordNet hypernyms
• Figure 12: A page from Ridgway’s 1912 Color Standards and Color Nomenclature
• Figure 13: A page from Saccardo’s 1894 Chromotaxia
• Figure 14: Color map average vector similarity with selected words
• Figure 15: Syntax dependency parse of “slopes of bright green grassland lay above them”
• Figure 16: Color inferences for grass, from \(M_P\).
• Figure 17: Color inferences for sheep, from \(M_P\).
• Figure 18: Color inferences for apples, from \(M_P\).
• Figure 19: Image-based model inferences, with example images.
• Figure 20: HSL Projection of To the Lighthouse Nouns. (Interactive version here. Due to the size of the data contained, it could take up to 30 seconds to load.)
• Figure 21: Data Flow Chart for Imagination Model
• Figure 22: Color proportions in literature, by date of publication
• Box Plot of Individual Color Words
• Figure 23: Base Color Proportions by LCSH
• Figure 24: Base Color Proportions By Genre

• Chapter 2: Shape
• Figure 1: Object proportions over time, \(C_{PG2}\)
• Figure 2: living_thing.n.01 proportions over time, \(C_{PG2}\)
• Figure 3: natural_object.n.01 proportions over time, \(C_{PG2}\)
• Figure 4: artifact.n.01 proportions over time, \(C_{PG2}\)
• Figure 5: Body parts by year of publication, \(C_{PG2}\)
• Figure 6: Body part sums, \(C_{PG2}\)
• Figure 7: Body Part Sums, Body Projection, \(C_{PG2}\)
• Figure 8: Sensory homonculus illustration. Source: OpenStax College; Wikimedia Commons; CC-BY

• Chapter 3: Image
• Figure 1: Moulton’s “cardinal points” of literary form
• Figure 2: Object proportions over time, \(C_{PG2}\)
• Figure 3: J. G. Bartholemew, Isochrone Map, 1914

Acknowledgments

This dissertation would not have been possible without the advice and support of a large network of scholars, at Columbia University and elsewhere. I’d like to thank my dissertation committee: Sarah Cole, Matthew Hart, and Dennis Tenen; Explosion AI, who generously donated a research license to Prodigy, their proprietary human-in-the-loop AI model training software; and the members of the 20/21st Century Colloquium at Columbia University, who provided useful feedback on early drafts of the first chapter.