Digital Literary Studies: Corpus Approaches to Poetry, Prose, and Drama - Paperback

by David L. Hoover (Author), Jonathan Culpeper (Author), Kieran O'Halloran (Author)

The book presents a varied picture of the possibilities of digital literary studies in the areas of style, diction, and characterization. It uses both huge natural language corpora and smaller, more specialized collections of texts created for specific tasks, and provocatively applies statistical techniques to broader literary and stylistic questions.

Author Biography

David L. Hoover is Professor of English at New York University, USA. His publications in stylistics and digital humanities include three books-A New Theory of Old English Meter, Language and Style in The Inheritors, and Stylistics: Prospect and Retrospect-and numerous articles on authorship attribution and corpus and computational stylistics.

Jonathan Culpeper is Professor of English Language and Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK. His major publications include Language and Characterisation in Plays and Other Texts (2001) and Early Modern English Dialogues: Spoken Interaction as Writing (2010; co-authored with Merja Kytö).

Kieran O'Halloran is a Reader in Applied Linguistics at King's College, University of London, UK. Publications include Critical Discourse Analysis and Language Cognition (2003), The Art of English: Literary Creativity (2006 with Goodman) and Applied Linguistics Methods (Routledge, 2010 with Coffin and Lillis).