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Author Bulson, Eric, author

Title Ulysses by numbers / Eric Bulson
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 273 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Making style count -- Words in progress -- One or how many? -- GIS Joyce -- Dating Ulysses -- 3pilogue: Miscounts, missed counts
Summary "Ulysses provides the reader with a slew of words, literary styles, and techniques. While countless critics have explored the novel, its language, structure, and history, Eric Bulson argues that numbers and other data allow for new perspectives on the creation, distribution, and composition of Ulysses. In Ulysses by Numbers, Bulson asks what do we gain by analyzing Joyce's novel using new methods in the digital humanities such as text-mining, visualization, social network analysis, and geographic information systems (GIS)? In employing these approaches, Bulson shows how some of the most basic questions about the novel and its history can be viewed in a new light. He demonstrates that these quantitative techniques allow for new answers to questions regarding who read the book, when it was written, how Joyce developed the technique of the interior monologue, and its characters. Bulson uses these techniques not only to understand Ulysses but also to tackle some of the questions and debates emerging out of the Digital Humanities. Finding a middle ground between those who view these techniques as the future of literary studies and those who see it as its death, Bulson argues that this quantitative turn, is, in fact, an opportunity to recalibrate methods, modes of inquiry, and critical assumptions"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 19, 2020)
Subject Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Ulysses.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Literary style -- Data processing
SUBJECT Joyce, James, 1882-1941 fast
Ulysses (Joyce, James) fast
Subject Symbolism of numbers in literature.
Criticism, Textual -- Data processing
Literature -- Research -- Methodology
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Criticism, Textual -- Data processing
Literary style -- Data processing
Literature -- Research -- Methodology
Symbolism of numbers in literature
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020015072
ISBN 9780231546478
0231546475