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Ted Underwood: Machine Learning and the Literary Imagination

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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The Life Cycles of Genre

There's been a lot of debate about this concept because we started out with a view of genre as almost like species of animals. But in fact, different readers will call the same book different things at different times. New categories can be created like science fiction or effective fiction. And sometimes the name will shift like is scientific romance in the late 19th century, Jules Verne and so on.

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