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the correlation between response and text. Additionally, the reading experience is dependent on more than just textual elements. To fully understand readers’ affective responses, I propose a combined approach, which incorporates textual elements (grammar, syntax, sentence structure) and literary context (genre, topic, time-period, writing style). All of these elements are necessary to fully understand and predict readers’ responses. We find that the complexity of literary analysis is representative of the complexity of literature and its interaction with readers’ experiences. This study provides the groundwork for a more sophisticated understanding of literature, and of the methodologies used to quantify readers’ responses to literature. We hope this work fosters further research on the topic, with the goal to better understand the dynamics of human emotional interaction.

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