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'The Order in the Horse's Heart': A Case Study in LLM-Assisted Stylometry for the Discovery of Biblical Allusion in Modern Literary Fiction

Illustration accompanying: 'The Order in the Horse's Heart': A Case Study in LLM-Assisted Stylometry for the Discovery of Biblical Allusion in Modern Literary Fiction

Researchers built a two-stage LLM pipeline to detect biblical allusions in Cormac McCarthy's novels, combining rare-word matching with open-ended LLM reading and validating findings against long-context models and published scholarship.

MentionsCormac McCarthy · King James Bible

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