UID:
almahu_9949546458502882
Format:
1 online resource (280 p.)
ISBN:
9781503633919
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9783110993899
Series Statement:
Stanford Text Technologies
Content:
Across the humanities and social sciences, scholars increasingly use quantitative methods to study textual data. Considered together, this research represents an extraordinary event in the long history of textuality. More or less all at once, the corpus has emerged as a major genre of cultural and scientific knowledge. In Literary Mathematics, Michael Gavin grapples with this development, describing how quantitative methods for the study of textual data offer powerful tools for historical inquiry and sometimes unexpected perspectives on theoretical issues of concern to literary studies. Student-friendly and accessible, the book advances this argument through case studies drawn from the Early English Books Online corpus. Gavin shows how a copublication network of printers and authors reveals an uncannily accurate picture of historical periodization; that a vector-space semantic model parses historical concepts in incredibly fine detail; and that a geospatial analysis of early modern discourse offers a surprising panoramic glimpse into the period's notion of world geography. Across these case studies, Gavin challenges readers to consider why corpus-based methods work so effectively and asks whether the successes of formal modeling ought to inspire humanists to reconsider fundamental theoretical assumptions about textuality and meaning. As Gavin reveals, by embracing the expressive power of mathematics, scholars can add new dimensions to digital humanities research and find new connections with the social sciences.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
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INTRODUCTION: THE CORPUS AS AN OBJECT OF STUDY --
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CHAPTER 1. NETWORKS AND THE STUDY OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL METADATA --
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CHAPTER 2. THE COMPUTATION OF MEANING --
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CHAPTER 3. CONCEPTUAL TOPOGRAPHY --
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CHAPTER 4. PRINCIPLES OF LITERARY MATHEMATICS --
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CONCLUSION: SIMILAR WORDS TEND TO APPEAR IN DOCUMENTS WITH SIMILAR METADATA --
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NOTES --
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BIBLIOGRAPHY --
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INDEX
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993899
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110994810
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993752
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110993738
In:
Stanford University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110766486
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781503632820
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781503633919
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503633919
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781503633919
