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New Horizons in Contemporary Writing Ser.: Thomas Pynchon and the Digital Humanities : Computational Approaches to Style by Erik Ketzan (2021, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-101350211834
ISBN-139781350211834
eBay Product ID (ePID)21050099242
Product Key Features
Number of Pages288 Pages
Publication NameThomas Pynchon and the Digital Humanities : Computational Approaches to Style
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2021
SubjectModern / 21st Century, Modern / 20th Century, American / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
AuthorErik Ketzan
SeriesNew Horizons in Contemporary Writing Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight20.5 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
ReviewsI'm just barely digitally-literate enough to recognize how ingenious Ketzan's book is, and what an enormous amount of work has gone into it. You can count on these findings percolating through the Pynchon scholarship over the course of the next few years. I don't know whether this is a watershed moment in Pynchon scholarship, whatever that might mean, but I'm sure that in future no-one will want to venture claims about Pynchon's style without first checking to see what Ketzan has discovered.
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal813.54
Table Of ContentIntroduction Chapter 1: Some Formal Overviews of Pynchon's Texts Chapter 2: Archaic Stylistics in Mason & Dixon Chapter 3: Pynchon, "The Voice of Ambiguity", Quantified Chapter 4: Pynchon's Acronymania Chapter 5: Pynchon's Profanity, Queried and Coded Chapter 6: Pynchon's Ellipsis Marks: Points and Dashes Conclusion
SynopsisThomas 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.
LC Classification NumberPS3566.Y55
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