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Enumerations: Data and Literary Study de Andrew Piper

Enumerations: Data and Literary Study

Autor Andrew Piper
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 aug 2018

În peisajul academic actual, Enumerations se plasează la intersecția fertilă dintre studiile literare tradiționale și informatică, oferind o fundamentare teoretică necesară disciplinei Digital Humanities. Remarcăm efortul autorului de a depăși simpla colectare de date, propunând o interogație profundă asupra modului în care cantitatea transformă înțelegerea noastră despre text. În timp ce disciplinele socio-umane au integrat demult metodele cantitative, critica literară a manifestat adesea rezistență; Andrew Piper demonstrează însă că analiza a 1,4 miliarde de cuvinte sau a peste 3 milioane de semne de punctuație nu anulează valoarea estetică, ci relevă tipare invizibile lecturii tradiționale.

Lucrarea extinde cadrul propus de Macroanalysis de Matthew L. Jockers prin adăugarea unei dimensiuni hermeneutice mai accentuate. Dacă Jockers se concentra pe potențialul revoluționar al procesării la scară largă, Piper revine la „particulele elementare” ale literaturii, investigând cum datele schimbă percepția asupra intrigii sau a personajului. Structura volumului este riguros organizată pe domenii cheie: începe cu micro-analiza punctuației, trece prin mecanismele intrigii și ale toposurilor, și culminează cu o reflecție asupra conceptului de corpus și a vulnerabilității acestuia. Această progresie reflectă tranziția de la elementul textual izolat către ansambluri complexe de date.

Apreciem modul în care această lucrare continuă preocupările autorului din Can We Be Wrong?, unde acesta aborda problema dovezilor textuale în era datelor. Față de Book Was There, care explora materialitatea lecturii, Enumerations face pasul decisiv către modelarea computațională, oferind 26 de tabele și 48 de diagrame care susțin argumentația. Este o resursă esențială pentru cercetătorii care doresc să înțeleagă nu doar „cât”, ci mai ales „ce înseamnă” cantitatea în studiul ficțiunii.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226568751
ISBN-10: 022656875X
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 48 line drawings, 26 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

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Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și studenților din domeniul filologiei și al științelor umaniste digitale care doresc să stăpânească instrumentele de analiză computațională. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă nouă asupra structurii narative, învățând cum să utilizeze datele masive pentru a valida sau infirma ipoteze critice clasice. Este un ghid teoretic și metodologic indispensabil pentru viitorul criticii literare, oferind rigoare științifică fără a sacrifica profunzimea interpretării.

Despre autor

Andrew Piper este profesor de literatură germană și europeană la McGill University, fiind una dintre figurile centrale ale domeniului Digital Humanities. Interesele sale de cercetare vizează intersecția dintre tehnologie, date și practicile de lectură. De-a lungul carierei, a explorat istoria cărții și transformările culturii scrise sub influența mediilor digitale în lucrări precum Dreaming in Books și Book Was There. Prin activitatea sa, Piper pledează pentru o abordare interdisciplinară, combinând rigoarea analizei statistice cu sensibilitatea criticii literare tradiționale.

Descriere scurtă

For well over a century, academic disciplines have studied human behavior using quantitative information. Until recently, however, the humanities have remained largely immune to the use of data—or vigorously resisted it. Thanks to new developments in computer science and natural language processing, literary scholars have embraced the quantitative study of literary works and have helped make Digital Humanities a rapidly growing field. But these developments raise a fundamental, and as yet unanswered question: what is the meaning of literary quantity?
          In Enumerations, Andrew Piper answers that question across a variety of domains fundamental to the study of literature. He focuses on the elementary particles of literature, from the role of punctuation in poetry, the matter of plot in novels, the study of topoi, and the behavior of characters, to the nature of fictional language and the shape of a poet’s career. How does quantity affect our understanding of these categories? What happens when we look at 3,388,230 punctuation marks, 1.4 billion words, or 650,000 fictional characters? Does this change how we think about poetry, the novel, fictionality, character, the commonplace, or the writer’s career? In the course of answering such questions, Piper introduces readers to the analytical building blocks of computational text analysis and brings them to bear on fundamental concerns of literary scholarship. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in Digital Humanities and the future of literary study.
 

Notă biografică

Andrew Piper is professor in the department of languages, literatures, and cultures at McGill University. He is the author of Dreaming in Books: The Making of Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age and Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times, both published by the University of Chicago Press. He is also a founding member of the Multigraph Collective, a group of twenty-two scholars that recently published Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print Saturation, also with the University of Chicago Press.

Cuprins

Preface
Introduction (Reading’s Refrain)
1. Punctuation (Opposition)
2. Plot (Lack)
3. Topoi (Dispersion)
4. Fictionality (Sense)
5. Characterization (Constraint)
6. Corpus (Vulnerability)
Conclusion (Implications)
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Data Sets
Notes
Index

Recenzii

"Andrew Piper’s ambitious and timely book introduces a range of new concepts and approaches into the ongoing debate about the role and implications of computational text analysis for literary studies. In place of the hyperbolic emphasis on size and scale in 'distant reading' he explores the possibilities of repetitive, implicated, distributed, and diagrammatic reading. Uniting these diverse approaches by deploying notions of translation and entanglement, Piper explores the multiple ways in which computational readings always and inevitably participate in the construction of meaning. As well as clearly and incisively describing methods for computational text analysis, Piper uses them to address longstanding questions in literary studies, ranging from nature of poetic contrasts and plot development to the relationship of life, death and aesthetics, and the shape of literary oeuvres. In doing so he foregrounds and advances the traditions and concerns that computational and non-computational literary scholars share in common in a way that bridges and exceeds the differences in method that sometimes threaten to divide them."

"Mathematical reasoning and literary insight dovetail in Enumerations. This beautifully written book uses numbers to make the texture of poetry and fiction surprising, so we can reflect more deeply on habitual pleasures. Piper's readers will come away knowing how to do new things with data, but also with a better understanding of characterization, plot, and the nature of fiction itself. Enumerations is not just an important book but a foundational one for this emerging field."

"Enumerations is a landmark.  No book has succeeded half so well in bridging the stubborn divide between numbers and letters in literary study.   To his Swiss-army-knife proficiency in data science, book history, and close reading, Piper adds a rare measure of generosity and tact. The book extends itself as an open invitation and encouragement to anyone interested in problems of literary method."

"Enumerations is a landmark study in the interactions between computational formalism and literary theoretical approaches. Piper does sterling work in making the mathematics and computation accessible but out of the limelight, while also providing more detail for those who are interested."

"Enumerations benefits from the similar breadth of Piper’s erudition. It is comparative in the best sense, spanning centuries, languages, and national traditions...It is richly informed by theory. And its quantitative methods are both sophisticated and well explained for lay readers."

"In Piper’s formulation, computational reading can instead be seen to complement and assist earlier hermeneutic traditions. Indeed, he contends, computational approaches extend the humanistic tradition because translation lies at their heart...If literary criticism has traditionally tended towards the metonymic and the particular/local encounter, Piper proposes that through computing we can apply the same rigour but at a much larger scale."

"Enumerations is a valuable and timely book that demonstrates the current depth and breadth of quantitative Digital Humanities scholarship for both literary and DH audiences. Arguing for the increased inclusion of computational data within literary criticism, Piper asks and answers intriguing literary questions while also suggesting new research directions... Enumerations successfully bridges the two disparate discourses of the digital and the humanities. Bringing sophisticated and robust computational power to literary criticism, Piper never loses touch with the humanistic questions and values that shape literary studies."