Michael Gavin: Literary Mathematics

Cover: 9781503633902 | Literary Mathematics | Quantitative Theory for Textual Studies | Gavin

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"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 co-publication 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"--

Über den Autor

Michael Gavin is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina and author of The Invention of English Criticism, 1650-1760 (2015).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Corpus as an Object of Study

1. Networks and the Study of Bibliographical Metadata

2. The Computation of Meaning

3. Conceptual Topography

4. Principles of Literary Mathematics

Conclusion: Similar Words Tend to Appear in Documents with Similar Metadata

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika , Importe
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781503633902
ISBN-10:	150363390X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Gavin, Michael
Hersteller:	Stanford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	227 x 149 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Michael Gavin
Erscheinungsdatum:	25.10.2022
Gewicht:	0,432 kg

Artikel-ID: 121574509

Über den Autor

Michael Gavin is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina and author of The Invention of English Criticism, 1650-1760 (2015).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika , Importe
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781503633902
ISBN-10:	150363390X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Gavin, Michael
Hersteller:	Stanford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	227 x 149 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Michael Gavin
Erscheinungsdatum:	25.10.2022
Gewicht:	0,432 kg