'A thing not beginning and not ending': using digital tools to distant-read Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans.
The particular reading difficulties engendered by the complicated patterns of repetition in The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein make it almost impossible to read this text in a traditional, linear manner. However, by visualizing certain patterns and looking at the text 'from a distance' throug...
| Publicado en: | Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 361 - 382 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2008
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