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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 345–367.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Hoyt Long; Richard Jean So Abstract This article uses computational modeling and large-scale pattern detection to develop a theory of global textual transmission as a process of turbulent flow. Specifically, it models stream-of-consciousness narration as a discrete set of linguistic features...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (4): 373–398.
Published: 01 December 2024
... in a literary economy. When this accrual (or lack thereof) is quantified using computational methodologies, we can track where critical attention goes, how much of it, and why. As a proof of this concept, the article offers a quantitative analysis of critical attention in Roland Barthes’s S/Z . This work...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Why study the past? Because we must. The computer seems to offer us access to simultaneity. We must therefore study the past “broadly.” Primo Levi offers us an example. But the access to simultaneity is a simulacrum, for the computing (intending) subject is determined...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of scientism, privileging scientific methodologies or partnership with scientific methodologies, in recent literary-critical scholarship is one result. The older formation of “humanities computing,” for example, has reemerged as the digital humanities, with claims to the status of interpretive methodology...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 401–404.
Published: 01 September 2021
[email protected] Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021 The Equivalence of ‘Close’ and ‘Distant’ Reading; or, Toward a New Object for Data-Rich Literary History,” published in MLQ in 2017, considered the methodological assumptions of two prominent computational literary scholars: Franco...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 491–525.
Published: 01 December 2020
... . 2017 . “ The Equivalence of ‘Close’ and ‘Distant’ Reading; or, Toward a New Object for Data-Rich Literary History .” MLQ 78 , no. 1 : 77 – 106 . Bode Katherine . 2019 . “ Computational Literary Studies: Participant Forum Responses, Day 2 .” Critical Inquiry blog, April 2...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 277–295.
Published: 01 September 2016
... literary “space” or “structure,” and what Alexander Beecroft ( 2015 : 17–21) further elaborates as an “ecology” of world literature from antiquity to the present. It was the challenge of conducting formal analysis on such a scale that led Moretti to undertake the series of computational experiments he...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (1): 95–124.
Published: 01 March 2020
... particularly emphasized. Speaking about “Distant Reading after Moretti,” Lauren Klein ( 2018 ) points to systemic problems relating to the use of “computational methods that derive from statistical modeling and computational linguistics . . . applied to analyze texts at scale,” arguing that their “unduly...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 447–471.
Published: 01 September 2016
... as a “neoliberal” commodity—not least in the way it structures time. The same is true of Amazon’s relation to the Internet or, more broadly, to digital technology, including the personal computer, word processor, data server, and now social media. The advent of advanced digital technology and Internet...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (3): 341–353.
Published: 01 September 2018
... 1995 ). My concern, however, was not with the shift to visual culture but with the wholesale shift from a print culture to a digital culture. That shift is still in progress. Lots of new novels still appear, at least initially, in print form, but some new novels are now written on the computer...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 171–195.
Published: 01 June 2013
... the accumulation and grouping of literary objects. More than born-­translated, Chang and Voge’s works are also born-­ digital. They have been made on and for the computer, and they use the resources of digital technology to emphasize the computer’s spe- cial role in the history of translation, in methods...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (1): 77–106.
Published: 01 March 2017
... literary studies, not for literary history, and was unrelated to either data or computation (Moretti 2000 ). With Graphs, Maps, Trees (Moretti 2005 ), literary history was foregrounded, and the “units much smaller or larger than the text,” theorized in “Conjectures on World Literature” (Moretti 2000...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (4): 407–424.
Published: 01 December 2001
... dragged on for months, even into other years, ended almost before there was time to acknowledge it. But the massive computer problems that were supposed to appear at the beginning of 2000 attracted so much millennial interest to the issues lumped under the name...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (4): 515–517.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., reprinting, and other forms of recursion that have been explored in the wake of Terence Cave’s 1979 Cornucopian Text or Mary Thomas Crane’s 1993 Framing Authority . An idea that Kuskin declares “overlooked” (200) in the criticism—that modern computing and Renaissance literary theory share assumptions...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (1): 136–139.
Published: 01 March 2021
... are now searchable by computers, giving access to much more information. And the new project—ten years in the making—has been carried out by a diverse collective, not by a single author with a card index in front of him. Keyword itself has added a meaning generated by the communications revolution...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (3): 251–279.
Published: 01 September 1994
... Take a good look at this woman,” the cover of a recent special edi- tion of Time proclaims. “She was created by a computer from a mix of several races. What you see is a remarkable preview of. . . The New Face of America.” Her name is reassurance: mixture obeying an inner rule, disproving...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 321–344.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., that this article describes only one half of it: the part concerned with poetry. Training a computer to predict whether books were reviewed in a particular set of venues was admittedly an odd strategy. We could have checked where the books were reviewed; we didn’t need computers to guess for us, and we...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (1): 86–99.
Published: 01 March 1991
... surveillance of the novel’s last chapter, for example, depends on a series of cameras, each operated by a computer, watching each other observe the world. Achilles spoke of that nightmare in Vietnam, where he flew a computerized bomber: “Their plane was a flying com- puter, programmed to start, fly...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 407–408.
Published: 01 September 2021
... Moriarty, Louis Zukofsky, and Paul Celan; to the impact of form in Jane Austen’s fiction; to the freightings of syntax in Victorian fiction; to revelations of form that emerge in computation; to the subtle temporalities of modernist fiction (Wolfson and Brown 2006 ). Many of the essays in the book...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 553–566.
Published: 01 December 2020
...-century France complements Goodlad’s discussion of a late nineteenth-century Britain that, via Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective fiction, is surprisingly proximate to the latter-day tenets of computational distant reading. Yet, in its original formulation, distant reading’s challenge to not read provided...