Thomas Pynchon and the Digital Humanities

Computational Approaches to Style

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Thomas Pynchon and the Digital Humanities

Computational Approaches to Style

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

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

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 18 Nov 2021
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 288
ISBN 9781350211858
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Series New Horizons in Contemporary Writing
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Erik Ketzan

Erik Ketzan is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Trinity Co…

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