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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457392203321

Autore

Ramsay Stephen

Titolo

Reading machines [[electronic resource] ] : toward an algorithmic criticism / / Stephen Ramsay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-58287-2

9786613895325

0-252-09344-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (113 p.)

Collana

Topics in the digital humanities

Disciplina

801.950285

808.00285

Soggetti

Linguistic String Parser (Computer grammar)

Discourse analysis - Data processing

Reading machines (Data processing equipment)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preconditions -- An algorithmic criticism -- Potential literature -- Potential readings -- The turing text -- Patacomputing -- Postconditions.

Sommario/riassunto

Besides familiar and now-commonplace tasks that computers do all the time, of what else are they capable? Stephen Ramsay's intriguing study of computational text analysis examines how computers can be used as 'reading machines' to open up entirely new possibilities for literary critics.