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Thomas Pynchon and the Digital Humanities Erik Ketzan

Thomas Pynchon and the Digital Humanities By Erik Ketzan

Thomas Pynchon and the Digital Humanities by Erik Ketzan


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Thomas Pynchon and the Digital Humanities Summary

Thomas Pynchon and the Digital Humanities: Computational Approaches to Style by Erik Ketzan

Thomas Pynchon's style has dazzled and bewildered readers and critics since the 1960s, and this book employs computational methods from the digital humanities to reveal heretofore unknown stylistic trends over the course of Pynchon's career, as well as challenge critical assumptions regarding foregrounded and supposedly Pynchonesque stylistic features: ambiguity/vagueness, acronyms, ellipsis marks, profanity, and archaic stylistics in Mason & Dixon. As the first book-length stylistic or computational stylistic examination of Pynchon's oeuvre, Thomas Pynchon and the Digital Humanities provides a groundwork of stylistic experiments and interpretations, with over 60 graphs and tables, presented in a manner in which both technical and non-technical audiences may follow.

Thomas Pynchon and the Digital Humanities Reviews

I'm just barely digitally-literate enough to recognize how ingenious Ketzan's book is, and what an enormous amount of work has gone into it. You can count on these findings percolating through the Pynchon scholarship over the course of the next few years. I don't know whether this is a watershed moment in Pynchon scholarship, whatever that might mean, but I'm sure that in future no-one will want to venture claims about Pynchon's style without first checking to see what Ketzan has discovered. -- Brian McHale, Distinguished Arts and Humanities Professor of English, The Ohio State University, USA

About Erik Ketzan

Erik Ketzan is Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Cultural Computation at King's College London, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1: Some Formal Overviews of Pynchon's Texts Chapter 2: Archaic Stylistics in Mason & Dixon Chapter 3: Pynchon, The Voice of Ambiguity, Quantified Chapter 4: Pynchon's Acronymania Chapter 5: Pynchon's Profanity, Queried and Coded Chapter 6: Pynchon's Ellipsis Marks: Points and Dashes Conclusion

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NLS9781350211872
9781350211872
1350211877
Thomas Pynchon and the Digital Humanities: Computational Approaches to Style by Erik Ketzan
New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2023-03-23
288
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