{"id":37533,"date":"2020-04-25T05:43:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T02:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=37533"},"modified":"2020-04-25T05:43:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T02:43:29","slug":"close-reading-with-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/04\/25\/close-reading-with-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"Close Reading with Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/eve.gd\/2020\/04\/07\/close-reading-with-computers-is-now-open-access-at-stanford-university-press\/\">Close Reading with Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell\u2019s Cloud Atlas<\/a><\/em> (April 2020). This substantial new single-author book applies textual computing to the science-fiction-philosophy novel <em>Cloud Atlas<\/em>, and is also free and under full Creative Commons.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This book is the first full-length monograph to bring a range of computational methods to bear in a sustained fashion, on a single novel, at the micro-level. While most contemporary digital studies are interested in distant-reading paradigms for large-scale literary history \u2013 using their digital methods as a telescope \u2013 following calls by Alan Liu and Tanya E. Clement, Close <em>Reading with Computers<\/em> instead asks what happens when such techniques function as a microscope.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As such it is possibly of interest as an exemplar for a set of computational techniques and approaches that could be used on a Lovecraft work. With the dense and historical (and public domain) <em>Dexter Ward<\/em> springing to mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close Reading with Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell\u2019s Cloud Atlas (April 2020). This substantial new single-author book &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/04\/25\/close-reading-with-computers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}