Shakespeare and scale : the archive of early printed English / Anupam Basu, Washington University in St. Louis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Basu, Anupam, 1976- author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in Shakespeare and text

Cambridge elements. Elements in Shakespeare and text, 2754-4249

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Language.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Digital humanities.

Corpora (Linguistics).

digital humanities.

Physical Description:

110 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Scale has been the central promise of the digital turn. The creation of corpora such as EEBO and EEBO-TCP have eased the logistics of access to primary sources for scholars of Shakespeare and early English literature and culture and fundamentally altered the ways in which we retrieve, read, think about, and analyze texts. However, the large-scale curation of historical corpora poses unique challenges and requires scholarly insight and significant algorithmic intervention. In sectionschapters on 'Text,' 'Corpus,' 'Search,' and 'Discovery,' this Eelement problematizes the specific affordances of computation and scale as primary conceptual categories rather than incidental artifacts of digitization. From text-encoding and search to corpus-scale data visualization and machine-learning, it discusses a range of computational techniques that can facilitate corpus curation and enable exploratory, experimental modes of discovery that not only serve as tools to ease access but accommodate and respond to the demands of humanistic inquiry."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version:

ISBN:

9781009306713

1009306715

OCLC:

1484996515

Publisher Number:

CIPO000195748