{"product_id":"graphic-criticism-9781433182747","title":"Graphic Criticism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGraphic Criticism\u003c\/em\u003e analyzes the semantic families of one hundred Anglophone novels written between 1719 and 1997. The analysis demonstrates that these novels embed a code for semantic distribution, and that code is the way that cultural values are transmitted. The longitudinal aspect of the analysis illuminates what T.S. Eliot called tradition. \u003cem\u003eGraphic Criticism\u003c\/em\u003e also zooms in on the particulars of a variety of the corpus texts to reveal Eliot's individual talent. Thus while the corpus indicates that the proportion of any semantic feature is consistent across time, each writer creatively works and plays with that feature in his or her own style. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eGraphic Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e presents an innovative methodology for visualizing and analyzing semantic networks in novels, offering a data-driven approach to literary analysis. Using a digital concordancer and a bottom-up lexicographical approach to categorization, Gliserman graphically represents semantic patterns across one hundred Anglophone novels over three centuries. Horizontal bar charts compare patterns of word usage suggesting a shared unconscious in the brain that allows the conscious mind to write stories. Mind maps use branching tree graphics for rewarding micro-analyses of word families in individual novels—KILL (Robinson Crusoe), SKIN (Fanny Hill and African American novels), BROKE (The Great Gatsby), WINDOW (Passing), VOICE (Invisible Man), and HEART (Beloved). Drawing on this sophisticated text mining, Gliserman uses the results for rich analyses of characters’ thoughts, actions and emotions. \u003ci\u003eGraphic Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e will provide welcome inspiration for a new generation of scholars. A necessary addition to collections in Anglophone literature and digital humanities.” —Daniel Rubey, Professor Emeritus and former Dean of Library \u0026amp; Information Services, Hofstra University\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eGraphic Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e offers a highly original angle on fiction. Applying the data mining and concordancing tools of corpus linguistics to one hundred Anglophone novels published between the early eighteenth and late twentieth century, Martin Gliserman uncovers the semantic networks that structure these texts underneath overt form-giving features such as syntax and plot. The visualisations of his findings in charts and mind maps provide a panoramic view on the larger cultural trends that can be deduced from the presence and distribution of prominent words in literary texts and enable focused micro readings documenting the semantic patterns that make up the unique identity of these sources. His findings shed light not only on the nature of the texts investigated (their ‘semantic unconscious), and hence on their authors’ distinctive styles, but also on the cognitive expectations these novels have of readers, providing a compelling and illuminating reminder that neither formalism nor structuralism have lost their heuristic relevance for the study of literature in the twenty-first century.” —Anja Müller-Wood, University Professor, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz; Editor, \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Literary Linguistics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures – Preface: Bio-Bibliography – Acknowledgments – Introduction: Semantic Webs: From Data to Network in Kate Chopin’s \u003ci\u003eThe Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e – Beginning with \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e – The Named Body of One Hundred Novels, 1719–1997 – The \"Compleat\" Semantic World of \u003ci\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/i\u003e – The Semantic World of One Hundred Novels: Evidence and Cases – BROKE and NOSE in \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e: White Male Rage – The Heart of \u003ci\u003eBeloved \u003c\/i\u003eand Ninety-Nine Other Novels – Skin and Trauma – Windows in \u003ci\u003ePassing\u003c\/i\u003e: What Goes Out the Window, Not Who – Audible Man—Voice in \u003ci\u003eInvisible Man\u003c\/i\u003e – CODA – Bibliography – Index.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039677317463,"sku":"9781433182747","price":54.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433182747.jpg?v=1750944456","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/graphic-criticism-9781433182747","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}