Computation as Context: New Approaches to the Close/Distant Reading Debate

Kirilloff Gabi

doi:10.1353/lit.2022.0000

Computation as Context: New Approaches to the Close/Distant Reading Debate

College Literature ◽

10.1353/lit.2022.0000 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 49 (1) ◽

pp. 1-25

Author(s):

Kirilloff Gabi

Keyword(s):

Distant Reading ◽

New Approaches

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FORMALISM AND DIGITAL RESEARCH OF LITERATURE

Digital Age in Semiotics & Communication ◽

10.33919/dasc.18.1.8 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 113-120

Author(s):

Marek Debnár

Keyword(s):

Information Technologies ◽

Distant Reading ◽

Methodological Issues ◽

Russian Formalism ◽

New Approaches ◽

Text Collections ◽

Specialized Texts ◽

Digital Research

The relation between the humanities and information technologies has become so strong in recent decades that it is no longer possible to see this relationship as a mere temporary phenomenon. Together with massive digitalization of books, journals and other texts, collected into extensive electronic libraries and hypertextual databases, it is now necessary to rethink and redefine not only the concept of reading, but to specify new possibilities for analysing literary and specialized texts. The aim of this study is to point at new approaches to reading large text collections in the light of Moretti’s method of distant reading. This paper uses the methodological issues of relation between distant reading and Russian formalism as background for this consideration.

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Beyond autism: Challenging unexamined assumptions about social motivation in typical development

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x18002273 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

Author(s):

Karen Bartsch ◽

David Estes

Keyword(s):

Social Interest ◽

Social Motivation ◽

Typical Development ◽

Typically Developing ◽

New Approaches

Abstract In challenging the assumption of autistic social uninterest, Jaswal & Akhtar have opened the door to scrutinizing similar unexamined assumptions embedded in other literatures, such as those on children's typically developing behaviors regarding others’ minds and morals. Extending skeptical analysis to other areas may reveal new approaches for evaluating competing claims regarding social interest in autistic individuals.

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