Enumerations : data and literary study / Andrew Piper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Piper, Andrew, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism--Statistical methods.

Criticism.

Criticism--Data processing.

Digital humanities.

Statistics.

Physical Description:

xiii, 243 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Summary:

In Enumerations, Andrew Piper answers that question across a variety of domains fundamental to the study of literature. He focuses on the elementary particles of literature, from the role of punctuation in poetry, the matter of plot in novels, the study of topoi, and the behavior of characters, to the nature of fictional language and the shape of a poet's career. How does quantity affect our understanding of these categories? What happens when we look at 3,388,230 punctuation marks, 1.4 billion words, or 650,000 fictional characters? Does this change how we think about poetry, the novel, fictionality, character, the commonplace, or the writer's career? In the course of answering such questions, Piper introduces readers to the analytical building blocks of computational text analysis and brings them to bear on fundamental concerns of literary scholarship. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in Digital Humanities and the future of literary study.

Contents:

Introduction (Reading's refrain)

Punctuation (Opposition)

Plot (Lack)

Topoi (Dispersion)

Fictionality (Sense)

Characterization (Constraint)

Corpus (Vulnerability)

Conclusion (Implications).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226568614

022656861X

9780226568751

022656875X

OCLC:

1022777060