1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786822203321

Autore

Byron Glennis <1955-, >

Titolo

Dramatic monologue / / Glennis Byron

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-134-69517-9

0-203-75478-6

1-134-69510-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Collana

New Critical Idiom

Disciplina

821/.02

Soggetti

English poetry - History and criticism

Dramatic monologues - History and criticism

American poetry - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 Introduction; 2 Definitions; Setting the terms of the debate; Poet and speaker; Reader and auditor; Character and subject; Changes in the canon; 3 Origins; The influence of genre theory; Reacting to the Romantics; Contemporary theories of poetry; Self in the broader context; An alternative theory; 4 Men and women; Women's voices; The critique of gender ideology; Men's voices; The gendered dynamics of self and other; Cross-gendered monologues; The monologue in dialogue; 5 Victorian developments

The question of styleThe historical consciousness; Questions of epistemology; Social critique; 6 Modernism and its aftermath; The decline of the genre?; An alternative view; Sixties revival; 7 Contemporary dramatic monologues; The dramatic monologue and society; Revisionist dramatic monologues; Dramatic monologues and the media; GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The dramatic monologue is traditionally associated with Victorian poets such as Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, and is generally considered to have disappeared with the onset of modernism in the twentieth century. Glennis Byron unravels its history and argues that, contrary to belief, the monologue remains popular to this day. This far-



reaching and neatly structured volume:* explores the origins of the monologue and presents a history of definitions of the term* considers the monologue as a form of social critique* explores issues at play in our understanding of the genr

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910827645903321

Autore

Gavin Michael

Titolo

Literary mathematics : quantitative theory for textual studies / / Michael Gavin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

1-5036-3391-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 pages)

Collana

Stanford text technologies

Disciplina

001.30285

Soggetti

Digital humanities

Quantitative research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: THE CORPUS AS AN OBJECT OF STUDY -- CHAPTER 1. NETWORKS AND THE STUDY OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL METADATA -- CHAPTER 2. THE COMPUTATION OF MEANING -- CHAPTER 3. CONCEPTUAL TOPOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 4. PRINCIPLES OF LITERARY MATHEMATICS -- CONCLUSION: SIMILAR WORDS TEND TO APPEAR IN DOCUMENTS WITH SIMILAR METADATA -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Across the humanities and social sciences, scholars increasingly use quantitative methods to study textual data. Considered together, this research represents an extraordinary event in the long history of textuality. More or less all at once, the corpus has emerged as a major genre of cultural and scientific knowledge. In Literary Mathematics, Michael Gavin grapples with this development, describing how quantitative methods for the study of textual data offer powerful tools for historical inquiry and sometimes unexpected perspectives on theoretical issues of concern to literary studies. Student-friendly and



accessible, the book advances this argument through case studies drawn from the Early English Books Online corpus. Gavin shows how a copublication network of printers and authors reveals an uncannily accurate picture of historical periodization; that a vector-space semantic model parses historical concepts in incredibly fine detail; and that a geospatial analysis of early modern discourse offers a surprising panoramic glimpse into the period's notion of world geography. Across these case studies, Gavin challenges readers to consider why corpus-based methods work so effectively and asks whether the successes of formal modeling ought to inspire humanists to reconsider fundamental theoretical assumptions about textuality and meaning. As Gavin reveals, by embracing the expressive power of mathematics, scholars can add new dimensions to digital humanities research and find new connections with the social sciences.