| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910409845403321 |
|
|
Autore |
Eve Martin Paul |
|
|
Titolo |
Close Reading with Computers : Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell's ‹i›Cloud Atlas‹/i› / / Martin Paul Eve |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Stanford, : Stanford University Press, 2019 |
|
Stanford, CA : , : Stanford University Press, , [2020] |
|
©2019 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (xiii, 251 pages) : illustrations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Criticism, Textual - Methodology - Computer programs |
Digital humanities - Research - Methodology |
Computational linguistics - Methodology |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Citations and Editions -- Introduction: Close Reading, Computers, and Cloud Atlas -- Chapter 1. The Contemporary History of the Book -- Chapter 2. Reading Genre Computationally -- Chapter 3. Historical Fiction and Linguistic Mimesis -- Chapter 4. Interpretation -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Textual Variants of Cloud Atlas -- Appendix B: List of Digital Data Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
Most contemporary digital studies are interested in distant-reading paradigms for large-scale literary history. This book asks what happens when such telescopic techniques function as a microscope instead. The first monograph to bring a range of computational methods to bear on a single novel in a sustained fashion, it focuses on the award-winning and genre-bending Cloud Atlas (2004). Published in two very different versions worldwide without anyone taking much notice, David Mitchell's novel is ideal fodder for a textual-genetic publishing history, reflections on micro-tectonic shifts in language by authors who move between genres, and explorations of how we imagine people wrote in bygone eras. Though Close Reading with Computers focuses on but |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
one novel, it has a crucial exemplary function: author Martin Paul Eve demonstrates a set of methods and provides open-source software tools that others can use in their own literary-critical practices. In this way, the project serves as a bridge between users of digital methods and those engaged in more traditional literary-critical endeavors. |
|
|
|
|
|
| |