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Reading by Numbers : Recalibrating the Literary Field by Katherine Bode is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Reading by Numbers : Recalibrating the Literary Field about?
'Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field' is the first book to use digital humanities strategies to integrate the scope and methods of book and publishing history with issues and debates in literary studies. By mining, visualising and modelling data from 'AustLit' – an online bibliography of Australian literature that leads the world in its comprehensiveness and scope – this study revises established conceptions of Australian literary history, presenting new ways of writing about literature and publishing and a new direction for digital humanities research. The case studies in this book offer insight into a wide range of features of the literary field, including trends and cycles in the gender of novelists, the formation of fictional genres and literary canons, and the relationship of Australian literature to other national literatures. | 'Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field' proposes and demonstrates a new digital approach to literary history. Drawing on bibliographical information on the Australian novel in the AustLit database, the book addresses debates and issues in literary studies through a method that combines book history's pragmatic approach
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Katherine Bode
- Publisher
- Anthem Press India
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781283575331
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction