Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History

Macroanalysis

Digital Methods and Literary History
 
Edition number: 1st Edition
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
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Number of Volumes: Hardback
 
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ISBN13:9780252037528
ISBN10:0252037529
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:208 pages
Size:235x156x25 mm
Weight:496 g
Language:English
Illustrations: 15 line drawings, 52 charts, 16 tables
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In this volume, Matthew L. Jockers introduces readers to large-scale literary computing and the revolutionary potential of macroanalysis--a new approach to the study of the literary record designed for probing the digital-textual world as it exists today, in digital form and in large quantities. Using computational analysis to retrieve key words, phrases, and linguistic patterns across thousands of texts in digital libraries, researchers can draw conclusions based on quantifiable evidence regarding how literary trends are employed over time, across periods, within regions, or within demographic groups, as well as how cultural, historical, and societal linkages may bind individual authors, texts, and genres into an aggregate literary culture. Moving beyond the limitations of literary interpretation based on the "close-reading" of individual works, Jockers describes how this new method of studying large collections of digital material can help us to better understand and contextualize the individual works within those collections.

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In this volume, Matthew L. Jockers introduces readers to large-scale literary computing and the revolutionary potential of macroanalysis--a new approach to the study of the literary record designed for probing the digital-textual world as it exists today, in digital form and in large quantities. Using computational analysis to retrieve key words, phrases, and linguistic patterns across thousands of texts in digital libraries, researchers can draw conclusions based on quantifiable evidence regarding how literary trends are employed over time, across periods, within regions, or within demographic groups, as well as how cultural, historical, and societal linkages may bind individual authors, texts, and genres into an aggregate literary culture.
 
Moving beyond the limitations of literary interpretation based on the "close-reading" of individual works, Jockers describes how this new method of studying large collections of digital material can help us to better understand and contextualize the individual works within those collections.



"Jockers dares us to consider what the future can hold now that so much of the literary canon is accessible digitally."--Library Journal
 
"An instructive introduction to the history of computing in the humanities and its increasingly sophisticated methodology."--Library Journal