Thomas Pynchon and the Digital Humanities: Computational Approaches to Style
Erik Ketzan
(Author)
Bryan Cheyette
(Editor)
Description
Thomas Pynchon's style has dazzled and bewildered readers and critics since the 1960s, and this book employs computational methods from the digital humanities to reveal heretofore unknown stylistic trends over the course of Pynchon's career, as well as challenge critical assumptions regarding foregrounded and supposedly "Pynchonesque" stylistic features: ambiguity/vagueness, acronyms, ellipsis marks, profanity, and archaic stylistics in Mason & Dixon. As the first book-length stylistic or computational stylistic examination of Pynchon's oeuvre, Thomas Pynchon and the Digital Humanities provides a groundwork of stylistic experiments and interpretations, with over 60 graphs and tables, presented in a manner in which both technical and non-technical audiences may follow.
Product Details
Price
$144.00
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publish Date
November 18, 2021
Pages
288
Dimensions
6.14 X 9.21 X 0.69 inches | 1.27 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781350211834
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Dr Erik Ketzan is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cologne, Department of Digital Humanities. Erik previously worked as an academic researcher at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language, then completed a PhD in English/Digital Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London.