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The Values in Numbers : Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age by Hoyt J Long is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Ideas about how to study and understand cultural history—particularly literature—are rapidly changing as new digital archives and tools for searching them become available. This is not the first information age, however, to challenge ideas about how and why we value literature and the role numbers might play in this process. The Values in Numbers tells the longer history of this evolving global conversation from the perspective of Japan and maps its potential futures for the study of Japanese literature and world literature more broadly.Hoyt Long offers both a reinterpretation of modern Japanese literature through computational methods and an introduction to the history, theory, and practice of looking at literature through numbers. He weaves explanations of these methods and their application to literature together with critical reflection on the kinds of reasoning such methodologies facilitate. Chapters guide readers through increasingly complex...Ideas about how to study and understand cultural history—particularly literature—are rapidly changing as new digital archives and tools for searching them become available. This is not the first information age however, to challenge
Who reads The Values in Numbers : Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Hoyt J Long
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780231193504
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Computer Science