Computational Stylistics in Poetry, Prose, and Drama pp 19–⁠36

Abstract

This chapter addresses the relationship between distant and close reading, advocating middle-ground reading with a strong focus on texts per se. By taking an evolutionary approach, it reviews pragmatic use over three decades of the mechanically enhanced reading of eighteenth-century British fiction, viewing texts first as systems then as corpora and later as constituents of embedded and overlapping corpora. In a back-and-forth movement between text and corpus, it explores norm and typicality by looking at canonical and non-canonical fiction.

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Bandry-Scubbi, A. (2023). Zooming In, Zooming Out: 30 Years of Corpus Stylistics Bricolage. In A. S. Bories, P. Plecháč, & P. Ruiz Fabo (Eds.), Computational Stylistics in Poetry, Prose, and Drama: (pp. 19–36). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110781502-002

DOI
http://doi.org/10.1515/9783110781502-002

Print ISBN
978-3110-781-41-0

Online ISBN
978-3110-781-50-2

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