New York Times Artsbeat blog, “Exposing Literary Style, One Word at a Time” (July 29, 2011)
In this week’s Mechanic Muse column for the Book Review, I look at how vast new databases and techniques can help scholars of the digital humanities zero in on the nitty-gritty of literary style, right down to the level of individual words. An exciting development over the past few years is that many of the tools that scholars use to plumb the depths of literary usage are now publicly available online. These resources aren’t locked up in an ivory tower, accessible only to an elite band of researchers. Call it the democratization of digital scholarship.
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