Bulson Ulysses by Numbers

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-231-54647-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Ulysses has been read obsessively for a century. What if instead of focusing on the words to understand the structure, design, and history of Joyce’s masterpiece, we pay attention to the numbers?

Taking a computational approach, Ulysses by Numbers lets us see the novel’s basic building blocks in a significantly new light—words, paragraphs, pages, and characters, as well as the original print run and the dates marking the beginning and end of its composition. Numbers provide access into Joyce’s creative process, enhanced by graphs, diagrams, timelines, and maps, and they also give us a startling new perspective on the proportions that continue to structure, organize, and pace the reading experience. Numbers are there to help us navigate the history of Ulysses from its earliest material beginnings, and they offer a concrete basis upon which we can explore the big questions about its length, style, origins, readership, and design.

An innovative computational reading on both a micro and macro level, Ulysses by Numbers is a timely intervention into debates about the use and abuse of quantitative methods in literary analysis. Eric Bulson demonstrates how reading by numbers can bring us closer to the words of Ulysses, helping us rediscover a novel we thought we already knew.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bulson, Eric Jon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

0verture
1ntroduction: Ulysses by Numbers
No. 1. Making Style Count

No. 2. Words in Progress
No. 3. One or How Many?
No. 4. GIS Joyce
No. 5. Dating Ulysses
3pilogue. Miscounts, Missed Counts
Notes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Eric Bulson is professor of English at Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of Little Magazine, World Form (Columbia, 2016); Novels, Maps, Modernity: The Spatial Imagination, 1850–2000 (2007); and The Cambridge Introduction to James Joyce (2006).