Using Booklamp labs stream graph viewer, I compared occurences of physically and emotionally charged story DNA in East of Eden and The Grapes of Wrath. East of Eden had more options for what I would call emotional/spiritual/physical DNA, and these bits of DNA were more consistently spread out through the book. Grapes of Wrath had less options, and the occurrences of these DNA bits were spiked and valley'd all through the novel.
I also tried Google books Ngram viewer, using some of the lingo from Brian McHale's awesome ideas on the shift from modern epistemology to postmodern ontology, as found in his book Postmodernist Fiction (I took the date 1966 from his essay "1966 Nervous Breakdown: Or, When did Postmodernism Begin?"). I'm not sure what to make of the results, but it was interesting to see "ontology" move in an opposite way from the other three terms.
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