What kind of text analysis related works can be done on rare book corpus like mythology?
Metaphor analytics is a hot topic. Gerard Steen’s (@GerardSteen) Metaphor Lab Amsterdam seems to be a focal point for metaphor analysis.
Computational Stylistics may be another avenue to pursue. You can check out Stylometry on Wikipedia.
See also my quick and dirty webpages:
- ATT-Meta Project (Metaphor, Metonymy and Mental States) | Meta-Guide.com
- Automatic Metaphor | Meta-Guide.com
- Chinese & Metaphor | Meta-Guide.com
- Computational Metaphorics (Draft) | Meta-Guide.com
- CorMet (Metaphor Extraction System) | Meta-Guide.com
- IARPA Metaphor | Meta-Guide.com
- Master Metaphor List | Meta-Guide.com
- MetaBank (Metaphor Databank) | Meta-Guide.com
- METALUDE (Metaphor at Lingnan University Department of English) | Meta-Guide.com
- MetNet (Metaphor Network) | Meta-Guide.com
- Metaphor Analysis | Meta-Guide.com
- Metaphor-based Reasoning | Meta-Guide.com
- Metaphor & Cognition | Meta-Guide.com
- Metaphor Extraction | Meta-Guide.com
- Metaphor Generation | Meta-Guide.com
- Metaphor Network | Meta-Guide.com
- Metaphor Project | Meta-Guide.com
- MetaViz (Metaphor Visualization) | Meta-Guide.com
- MIP (Metaphor Identification Procedure) | Meta-Guide.com
- SemEval & Metaphors | Meta-Guide.com
- ZMET (Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique) | Meta-Guide.com