Description: Literary Mathematics : Quantitative Theory for Textual Studies, Hardcover by Gavin, Michael, ISBN 1503632822, ISBN-13 9781503632820, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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, th advances this argument through case studies drawn from the Early English Books Online corpus. Gavin shows how a copublication 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 humanities research and find new connections with the social sciences.
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Book Title: Literary Mathematics : Quantitative Theory for Textual Studies
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Name: Literary Mathematics : Quantitative Theory for Textual Studies
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: Renaissance, General, Semiotics & Theory, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year: 2022
Item Height: 0.9 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Education
Author: Michael Gavin
Series: Stanford Text Technologies Ser.
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
