Home > Research > Publications & Outputs > Introduction

Links

Text available via DOI:

View graph of relations

Introduction

Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNForeword/postscript

Published
Close
Publication date18/02/2014
Host publicationDigital Literary Studies: Corpus Approaches to Poetry, Prose, and Drama
PublisherRoutledge Taylor & Francis Group
Pages1-8
Number of pages8
ISBN (print)9780203698914
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Digital Literary Studies presents a broad and varied picture of the promise and potential of methods and approaches that are crucially dependent upon the digital nature of the literary texts it studies and the texts and collections of texts with which they are compared. It focuses on style, diction, characterization, and interpretation of single works and across larger groups of texts, using both huge natural language corpora and smaller, more specialized collections of texts created for specific tasks, and applies statistical techniques used in the narrower confines of authorship attribution to broader stylistic questions. It addresses important issues in each of the three major literary genres, and intentionally applies different techniques and concepts to poetry, prose, and drama. It aims to present a provocative and suggestive sample intended to encourage the application of these and other methods to literary studies.