Macroanalysis
Digital Methods and Literary History
Publication Year: 2013
Moving beyond the limitations of literary interpretation based on the "close-reading" of individual works, Jockers describes how this new method of studying large collections of digital material can help us to better understand and contextualize the individual works within those collections.
Published by: University of Illinois Press
Part I Foundation

1 Revolution
An article in the June 23, 2008, issue of Wired declared in its headline “Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete” (Anderson 2008). By 2008 computers, with their capacity for number crunching and processing large-scale data sets, had revolutionized the way that scientific research gets done, so much so that the same article declared an end to theorizing in science. With so much data, ...
Part II Analysis
Part III Prospects
E-ISBN-13: 9780252094767
Print-ISBN-13: 9780252037528
Page Count: 328
Publication Year: 2013
OCLC Number: 829370513
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