Macroanalysis is a well-written book-a quality that makes it stand out among many other publications on the topic of computational text analysis. "Jockers' study deserves our careful attention. A fascinating blend of statistics and sociolinguistic analysis.
"Jockers puts data mining and word crunching to good use in analyzing textual components across large textual databases. "An instructive introduction to the history of computing in the humanities and its increasingly sophisticated methodology."- Library Journal A new, turbocharged sort of philology-one covering wider swaths of literature than even the most diligent and asocial researcher could ever read."- Chronicle of Higher Ed "A showcase for the range and the potential of. "Jockers dares us to consider what the future can hold now that so much of the literary canon is accessible digitally."- Library Journal If you want to know what a major part of literary criticism will look like in 20 years, you need to read Macroanalysis.- Los Angeles Review of Books Moving beyond the limitations of literary interpretation based on the "close-reading" of individual works, Jockers describes how this new method of studying large collections of digital material can help us to better understand and contextualize the individual works within those collections. Jockers introduces readers to large-scale literary computing and the revolutionary potential of macroanalysis-a new approach to the study of the literary record designed for probing the digital-textual world as it exists today, in digital form and in large quantities. Using computational analysis to retrieve key words, phrases, and linguistic patterns across thousands of texts in digital libraries, researchers can draw conclusions based on quantifiable evidence regarding how literary trends are employed over time, across periods, within regions, or within demographic groups, as well as how cultural, historical, and societal linkages may bind individual authors, texts, and genres into an aggregate literary culture. About the BookThe creation of enormous and inclusive databases, the digitization of literary works, and the steady improvement in search engines enable scholars in the digital humanities to ask very big questions.
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