Based on papers given at the 21st St. Louis Symposium on German Language and Culture "Distant Readings/Descriptive Turns: Topologies of German Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century" held at Washington University in St. Louis, March 29-30, 2012. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Can computers read? / Lutz Koepnick. Quantification. Burrow's Delta and its use in German literary history / Fotis Jannidis and Gerhard Lauer ; The location of literary history : topic modeling, network analysis, and the German novel, 1731-1864 / Matt Erlin -- How to read 22,198 journal articles : studying the history of German Studies with topic models / Allen Beye Riddell ; Serial individuality : Eighteenth-Century case study collections and Nineteenth-Century archival fiction / Nicolas Pethes -- The case for close reading after the descriptive turn / Todd Kontje -- Circulation. The Werther effect I : Goethe, objecthood, and the handling of knowledge / Andrew Piper and Mark Algee-Hewitt ; Rethinking non-fiction : distant reading the Nineteenth-Century science-literature divide / Peter M. McIsaac ; Distant reception : bringing German books to America / Kirsten Belgum ; The one and the many : The Old Mam 'selle's Secret and the American traffic in German fiction (1868-1917) / Lynne Tatlock -- Contextualization. The vocations of the novel : distant-reading occupational change in Nineteenth-Century German literature / Tobias Boes ; Big data, pattern recognition, and literary studies: N-Gramming the railway in Nineteenth-Century German fiction / Paul A. Youngman and Ted Carmichael ; "Detoured Reading" : understanding literature through the eyes of its contemporaries (a case study on anti-semitism in Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben) / Katja Mellmann ; Can computers read? / Lutz Koepnick.
Series:
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
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