Combining Close and Distant Reading: A Multiscalar Analysis of the English Lake District's Historical Soundscape
Combining Close and Distant Reading: A Multiscalar Analysis of the English Lake District's Historical Soundscape
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近读与远读相结合：英国湖区历史音景的多标量分析
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10.3366/ijhac.2018.0220
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2018
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Christopher Donaldson
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Joanna E. Taylor;I. Gregory;Christopher Donaldson
本文呼吁文学学术超越“近距离”阅读和“远距离”阅读之间的二元对立的局限性，并致力于开发利用数字方法的宏观分析潜力以及文学学术特征的细致入微分析的方法。我们利用有关英语湖区的定制语料库，对称为地理文本分析（GTA）的多标量方法的应用进行建模，该方法结合了细读和远读的各个方面，并在此过程中引入了一种新的文学研究方法。在这里，我们重点关注湖区声景的历史描述，以展示十八世纪和十九世纪过程中声音感知如何变化，以及多标量方法如何独特地揭示这种历史文学转变。我们认为，声音提供了一个特别有用的焦点，因为它使我们能够在我们的方法和我们研究的作家所采用的方法之间进行富有成效的比较。通过这种方式，本文倡导数字人文学术，在与适当的历史模式的对话中推进我们的学科。
This article joins calls for literary scholarship to move beyond the limitations of binary oppositions between ‘close’ and ‘distant’ reading and towards the development of approaches that exploit the macroanalytic potential of digital methods alongside the nuanced analysis that characterises literary scholarship. Drawing on a customised corpus of writing about the English Lake District, we model the application of a multiscalar approach known as geographical text analysis (GTA), which combines aspects of close reading and distant reading, and, in doing so, introduces a new method for literary research. Here, we focus on historical descriptions of the Lake District's soundscape to demonstrate both how perceptions of sound changed over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and how multi-scalar methods can uniquely uncover such historical-literary shifts. Sound, we argue, offers a particularly useful focus since it allows us to draw fruitful parallels between our methods and those applied by the writers we study. In this way, this article advocates for digital humanities scholarship that advances our disciplines in conversation with appropriate historical modes.