Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Pynchon and Philosophy radically reworks our readings of Thomas Pynchon alongside the theoretical perspectives of Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno. Rigorous yet readable, Pynchon and Philosophy seeks to recover philosophical readings of Pynchon that work harmoniously, rather than antagonistically, resulting in a wholly fresh approach.

Literature --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Philosophy. --- Theory --- Pynchon, Thomas --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig, --- Foucault, Michel, --- Adorno, Theodor W., --- Fūkūh, Mīshīl, --- Foucault, Michael, --- Fuko, Mišel, --- Pʻukʻo, --- Pʻukʻo, Misyel, --- Phoukō, Misel, --- Fuke --- 福柯 --- Fuḳo, Mishel, --- Wei-tʻe-ken-ssu-tʻan, --- Wei-tʻe-ken-ssu-tʻan, Lu-te-wei-hsi, --- Wittgenstein, L. --- Vitgenshteĭn, L., --- Wei-ken-ssu-tʻan, --- Pitʻŭgensyutʻain, --- Vitgenshteĭn, Li︠u︡dvig, --- Weitegenshitan, --- Wittgenstein, Ludovicus, --- Vitgenshtaĭn, Ludvig, --- ויטגנשטיין, לודוויג --- 维特根斯坦, --- Pinchon, Tomas --- Wiesengrund, Theodor, --- Wiesengrund-Adorno, Theodor, --- Adorno, Teodor V., --- Adorŭno, --- אדורנו, תאודור --- אדורנו, ת. ו. --- Adorno, Th. W. --- Foucault, M. --- Foucault, Michel --- Adorno, Theodor W. --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann, --- Philosophy --- Literature—Philosophy. --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Language and languages—Philosophy. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Fiction. --- Literary Theory. --- Cultural Theory. --- Philosophy, general. --- Philosophy of Language. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Novelists --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Pynchon --- Contemporary Fiction --- Literature and Philosophy --- Ludwig Wittgenstein --- philosophy --- society --- Theodor W. Adorno --- Open Access

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Most contemporary digital studies are interested in distant-reading paradigms for large-scale literary history. This book asks what happens when such telescopic techniques function as a microscope instead. The first monograph to bring a range of computational methods to bear on a single novel in a sustained fashion, it focuses on the award-winning and genre-bending Cloud Atlas (2004). Published in two very different versions worldwide without anyone taking much notice, David Mitchell's novel is ideal fodder for a textual-genetic publishing history, reflections on micro-tectonic shifts in language by authors who move between genres, and explorations of how we imagine people wrote in bygone eras. Though Close Reading with Computers focuses on but one novel, it has a crucial exemplary function: author Martin Paul Eve demonstrates a set of methods and provides open-source software tools that others can use in their own literary-critical practices. In this way, the project serves as a bridge between users of digital methods and those engaged in more traditional literary-critical endeavors.

Mathematical linguistics --- Mitchell, David --- Criticism, Textual --- Digital humanities --- Computational linguistics --- Humanities --- Epic poetry, Greek Criticism, Textual --- Methodology --- Computer programs. --- Research --- Methodology. --- Criticism, Textual. --- Close reading. --- Cloud Atlas. --- David Mitchell. --- critique. --- digital humanities. --- distant reading. --- historical fiction. --- publishing. --- textual scholarship.