Close Reading with Computers : Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell's ‹i›Cloud Atlas‹/i› / Martin Paul Eve.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eve, Martin Paul, Author.

Contributor:

The Philip Leverhulme Prize, funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mitchell, David (David Stephen). Cloud atlas--Criticism, Textual.

Mitchell, David.

Criticism, Textual--Methodology--Computer programs.

Criticism, Textual.

Digital humanities--Research--Methodology.

Digital humanities.

Computational linguistics--Methodology.

Computational linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 251 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford Stanford University Press 2019

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

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ISBN:

9781503609372

1503609375

OCLC:

1178769982

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access