Digital Literary Studies: Corpus Approaches to Poetry, Prose, and Drama

ISBN-13: 9780415352307 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 202 str.

David L. Hoover;Jonathan Culpeper;Bill Louw

Opis

Digital Literary Studies presents a broad and varied picture of the promise and potential of methods and approaches that are crucially dependent upon the digital nature of the literary texts it studies and the texts and collections of texts with which they are compared. It focuses on style, diction, characterization, and interpretation of single works and across larger groups of texts, using both huge natural language corpora and smaller, more specialized collections of texts created for specific tasks, and applies statistical techniques used in the narrower confines of authorship attribution to broader stylistic questions. It addresses important issues in each of the three major literary genres, and intentionally applies different techniques and concepts to poetry, prose, and drama. It aims to present a provocative and suggestive sample intended to encourage the application of these and other methods to literary studies. Hoover, Culpeper, and O'Halloran push the methods, techniques, and concepts in new directions, apply them to new groups of texts or to new questions, modify their nature or method of application, and combine them in innovative ways.

Corpus stylistics is a relatively new area of study in the discipline of linguistics. This detailed account explores topics in literary stylistics such as interpretation, stylistic variation, irony and characterization using computational and statistical techniques developed in the field including corpus linguistics and humanities computing. Drawing on huge natural, as well as smaller, more specialized corpora, this book uses language-based analysis to produce provocative analyses of poetry, prose and plays.

 

 

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Keywords and Characterization: An Analysis of Six Characters in Romeo and Juliet  3. Developing Keyness and Characterization: Annotation  4. The Moonstone and The Coquette: Narrative and Epistolary Style  5. A Conversation Among Himselves: Change and the Styles of Henry James  6. Corpus-Assisted Literary Evaluation 7. Performance Stylistics: Deleuze and Guattari, Poetry, and (Corpus) Linguistics