Fig. — genres learned from prose · 166 authors, one novel each · style- & author-controlled
Each node is a novel, placed by prose similarity and coloured by the genre the network inferred (hover for the title). Detective fiction (★) is the one cluster with a genuine temporal birth; the rest are perennial modes.
Is a genre born at a moment, or perennial? — temporal concentration vs a null (z ≤ −2 = emergent)