Try out my new R package stoRy containing an implementation of 1) the hypergeometric test for over-representation of literary themes in a list of stories relative to a background list of stories, and 2) a recommendation system that takes a user-selected story as input and returns a ranked list of similar stories on the basis of shared themes.
A selection of books from ancient to modern times that you will find sitting on my bookshelf.
Check out a sample of my visualization book centered around the Star Trek television franchise that I'm having a world of trouble getting published, and my old blog, Anecdotes from Antiquity.