# Plotting Markson's 'Mistress'

## TL;DR

This paper employs text analysis and network visualization to explore the non-linear narrative structure of Markson's 'Wittgenstein's Mistress', aiming to enhance understanding through distant reading techniques.

## Contribution

It introduces a novel approach combining entity recognition and network analysis to study the narrative's repetitive structures and their relation to critical themes.

## Key findings

- Revealed patterns of repetition in the narrative
- Connected narrative structures to thematic elements
- Provided visualizations supporting literary analysis

## Abstract

The post-modern novel 'Wittgenstein's Mistress' by David Markson (1988) presents the reader with a very challenging non linear narrative, that itself appears to one of the novel's themes. We present a distant reading of this work designed to complement a close reading of it by David Foster Wallace (1990). Using a combination of text analysis, entity recognition and networks, we plot repetitive structures in the novel's narrative relating them to its critical analysis.

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Source: https://tomesphere.com/paper/1905.07185