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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.
- Humanities--Data processing.
- Humanities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Distribution:
- [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021
- Place of Publication:
- London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
- Summary:
- "The first book-length analysis of Pynchon's style, this book uses methodologies such as computational analysis, drawn from the Digital Humanities, to reveal previously unknown stylistic trends in this much-studied author's oeuvre. In doing so, it challenges critical assumptions regarding supposedly 'Pynchonesque' stylistic features and presents the most extensive description thus far of Pynchon's 'late style'. It examines a range of texts from Pynchon's oeuvre , including Gravity's Rainbow , The Crying of Lot 49 and Mason & Dixon as well as contextualising his work alongside that of other key writers such as Toni Morrison, David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo and Stephen King."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction and Definition of Style
- Chapter 1: Issues in Computational Stylistics and Digital Pynchon Studies
- Chapter 2: Corpora and Software
- Chapter 3: Some Formal Overviews of Pynchon's Texts
- Chapter 4: The Style of Mason & Dixon
- Chapter 5: Pynchon, 'The Voice of Ambiguity,' Quantified
- Chapter 6: Pynchon's Acronymania
- Chapter 7: Pynchon's Profanity, Queried and Coded
- Chapter 8: Pynchon's Ellipsis Marks: Points and Dashes Conclusion : Pynchon's 'Late Style' and Future Work
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Creative Commons. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781350211858
- 1350211850
- 9781350211865
- 1350211869
- 9781350211841
- 1350211842
- OCLC:
- 1240366404
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