UID:
almafu_9960119696802883
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 386 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-57113-896-X
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1-57113-890-0
Series Statement:
Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture ; v.Volume 146
Content:
In nineteenth-century Germany, breakthroughs in printing technology and an increasingly literate populace led to an unprecedented print production boom that has long presented scholars with a challenge: how to read it all? This anthology seeks new answers to the scholarly quandary of the abundance of text. Responding to Franco Moretti's call for "distant reading" and modeling a range of innovative approaches to literary-historical analysis informed by theburgeoning field of digital humanities, it asks what happens when we shift our focus from the one to the many, from the work to the network. The thirteen essays in this volume explore the evolving concept of "distant reading" and its application to the analysis of German literature and culture in the long nineteenth century. The contributors consider how new digital technologies enable both the testing of hypotheses and the discovery of patterns and trends, as well as how "distant" and traditional "close" reading can complement each another in hybrid models of analysis that maintain careful attention to detail, but also make calculation, enumeration, and empirical descriptioncritical elements of interpretation. Contributors: Kirsten Belgum, Tobias Boes, Matt Erlin, Fotis Jannidis and Gerhard Lauer, Lutz Koepnick, Todd Kontje, Peter M. McIsaac, Katja Mellmann, Nicolas Pethes, Andrew Piper and Mark Algee-Hewitt, Allen Beye Riddell, Lynne Tatlock, Paul A. Youngman and Ted Carmichael. Matt Erlin is Professor of German and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Lynne Tatlock is Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, both at Washington University, St. Louis.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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Introduction: "Distant Reading" and the historiography of Nineteenth-Century German literature /
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Quantification.
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Burrow's Delta and its use in German literary history /
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The location of literary history : topic modeling, network analysis, and the German novel, 1731-1864 /
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How to read 22,198 journal articles : studying the history of German Studies with topic models /
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Serial individuality : Eighteenth-Century case study collections and Nineteenth-Century archival fiction /
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The case for close reading after the descriptive turn /
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Circulation.
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The Werther effect I : Goethe, objecthood, and the handling of knowledge /
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Rethinking non-fiction : distant reading the Nineteenth-Century science-literature divide /
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Distant reception : bringing German books to America /
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The one and the many : The Old Mam 'selle's Secret and the American traffic in German fiction (1868-1917) /
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Contextualization.
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The vocations of the novel : distant-reading occupational change in Nineteenth-Century German literature /
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Big data, pattern recognition, and literary studies: N-Gramming the railway in Nineteenth-Century German fiction /
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"Detoured Reading" : understanding literature through the eyes of its contemporaries (a case study on anti-semitism in Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben) /
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Can computers read? /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-57113-539-1
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
DOI:
10.1515/9781571138903
