Close Reading with Computers

Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas

by Martin Paul Eve

No cover — Martin Paul Eve: Close Reading with Computers (2019, Stanford University Press)

272 pages

Published May 12, 2019 by Stanford University Press.

ISBN:: 978-1-5036-0937-2

Rather than working at the usual scales of distant reading, this book shows what happens when we bring techniques from the digital humanities to bear on a single novel for close readings.

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Paul Matthews reviewed Close Reading with Computers by Martin Paul Eve

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4 stars

A nice mix of text analytics and literary analysis. I did not always feel that the computational aspects were successfully woven in with the other arguments, but the two approaches certainly combine to give a rich picture of the book, its themes, linguistic style and kaleidoscopic structure

Subjects

Literature: history & criticism