Thomas Pynchon and the digital humanities : computational approaches to style / Erik Ketzan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ketzan, Erik, author.

Series:

New horizons in contemporary writing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pynchon, Thomas--Criticism and interpretation.

Pynchon, Thomas.

Pynchon, Thomas--Themes, motives.

Digital humanities.

Themes, motives.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Some Formal Overviews of Pynchon's Texts

1.1. Pynchon's Productivity

1.2. Direct Discourse, Narration, and Verse

1.2.1. Songs/Poems Are Decreasing in Pynchon

1.2.2. Direct Discourse Is Increasing in Pynchon

1.2.3. Reading Dialogue and Character in Pynchon

1.3. Formal Overviews: Conclusion

2. Archaic Stylistics in Mason & Dixon

2.1. Capitalized Nouns

2.1.1. Capitalization in Pynchon: Scholarly Response

2.1.2. Querying and Close Reading Pynchon's Irregular Capitalization

2.2. Archaic Spelling, Especially <-ick>

2.3. Religious/Profane Censorship

2.4. Archaic Use of Apostrophes

2.5. Archaic Pronouns and Verbs

2.6. Archaic Language and the Sacred/Profane in Pynchon's Texts

2.7. Archaic Stylistics in Mason & Dixon: Conclusion

3. Pynchon, "The Voice of Ambiguity," Quantified

3.1. Ambiguity in Pynchon Studies

3.1.1. "Ambiguous"

3.1.2. "Ambiguity" Queried

3.2. Vagueness Words and Phrases

3.2.1. The Hiller/Hogenraad Vagueness Dictionary

3.2.2. Pynchon's "Preferred" Vagueness Words

3.2.3. A Brief Detour with Its

3.2.4. Pynchon's "Preferred" Vagueness Words, Continued

3.2.5. The Least Vague Passages in Bleeding Edge

3.3. Ambiguity/Vagueness: Conclusion

4. Pynchon's Acronymania

4.1. Acronym Query

4.2. Calculated Overuse of Acronyms

4.3. Acronyms as Parody, Play, and Central Enigma

4.4. Acronymania: Conclusion

5. Pynchon's Profanity, Queried and Coded

5.1. Profanity Queries and Changes to Profanity in English

5.2. A Very Brief History of Obscenity Prosecutions of Literature in Twentieth-Century America

5.3. Profanity in Pynchon's Juvenilia and Early Short Stories

5.4. Profanity in V. and "The Secret Integration"

5.5. Profanity in The Crying of Lot 49

5.6. Pynchon's Profanity: Conclusion

6. Pynchon's Ellipsis Marks: Points and Dashes

6.1. A Brief History of Ellipsis Marks in English Literature

6.2. Ellipsis Marks in Pynchon and Comparison Corpora

6.3. Ellipsis Words

6.4. From Frequency to Close(r) Reading

6.5. Ellipsis Marks and Speech

6.6. Ellipsis Marks and Verse

6.6.1. Rilke's Ellipses

6.6.2. Emily Dickinson's Dashes

6.7. Ellipsis Marks: Conclusion

Conclusion

Appendix I Corpora, Software, Methods

1.1. Pynchon Corpus

1.1.1. Normalization of Mason & Dixon

1.2. Us vs. Them: Comparison Corpora

1.2.1. Influence Corpus

1.3. Software

1.4. Statistics

1.5. Shared Data

Appendix II Literature Review of Digital Pynchon Studies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1350211834

9781350211834

OCLC:

1200197605