Review of Voyant Tools

Abstract

As Steven E. Jones indicates, “a text’s -- any text’s -- interpretive possibilities are always manifold…”¹ Whether a researcher is revealing how many times the word “love” is used in Shakespeare’s sonnets or deciphering the context of the word “Pope” in the Vatican’s infamous Index of Prohibited Books, one can spend hours experimenting with Voyant Tools (http://voyant-tools.org/), a text analysis tool through which the written word can be understood in new ways.