Long The Values in Numbers

Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-55034-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

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 together with reflection on the kinds of reasoning such methodologies facilitate.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Long, Hoyt

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken Informationstheorie, Kodierungstheorie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Informationstheorie, Kodierungstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Uncertainty in Numbers
1. Facts and Difference
2. Archive and Sample
3. Genre and Repetition
4. Influence and Judgment
5. Discourse and Character
Epilogue: Difference in Numbers
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hoyt Long is associate professor of Japanese literature at the University of Chicago, where he also directs the Chicago Text Lab and co-directs the Textual Optics Lab. He is the author of On Uneven Ground: Miyazawa Kenji and the Making of Place in Modern Japan (2012).