Thomas Pynchon's earlier novels are narration heavy, but the amount of direct discourse (mostly dialogue), rises in later works. Perhaps related to how characters in later novels are considered more "fleshed out" by critics? From my new book: bloomsbury.com/uk/thomas-pync…

Want to compare two variant texts quickly? Try our new easy-to-use Python script, Coleto: This image shows the textual changes between two versions of Andy Weir's sci-fi bestseller, The Martian. The big spike at the end is a removed epilogue digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/15/4/0…

Greatly enjoying Martin Eve's new book, The Digital Humanities and Literary Studies. Open access: eve.gd/books/ Martin Paul Eve

New paper presented at DH2022 Tokyo: “Quantitative Analysis of Gendered Assumptions in a Nineteenth-Century Women’s Encyclopedia,” looking at a fascinating 10-volume encyclopedia written for women in the 1830's tinyurl.com/4yswx5ny

very cool new dataset: four editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica as .txt files. From The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project github.com/TU-plogan/Know…

new publication: identifying snippets of foreign languages in English literary texts, like "Entrez! she called" ceur-ws.org/Vol-3290/ #CHR2022

Exciting new research by Erik Katzen and Nicolas Werner shows that Fasttext is the most accurate tool for identifying foreign language n-grams in English literature! #chr2022 ceur-ws.org/Vol-3290/short…

🎉Congratulations to Erik Ketzan for winning the 2022 round of the DARIAH Open Access Book Bursary for his book Thomas Pynchon and the Digital Humanities: Computational Approaches to Style. The book will be made available Open Access at Bloomsbury Books UK. dariah.eu/2023/03/01/dar…

Huge congratulations to my former PhD student, Erik Ketzan, whose first book has won the DARIAH Open Access Book Bursary. Pleased to say that this landmark text in Pynchon studies will soon be available for all to read, for free.

Now in paperback, Thomas Pynchon and the Digital Humanities: Computational Approaches to Style Now $35.95/£28.99, cheaper as ebook An analysis of Pynchon's wild style, with over 60 graphs and tables. “A landmark contribution to Pynchon Studies.” — Prof. Luc Herman

『トマス・ピンチョンとデジタル・ヒューマニティーズ』。面白そうな本です。値段も（ハードカバー以外は）法外ではない。日本でもこういう研究スタイルが増えてくるかな。

New paper out today, asking: What books has ChatGPT/GPT-4 *memorized*? A LOT. Harry Potter, Pride & Prejudice, 1984, LotR, Hunger Games, GoT, 50 Shades of Grey, Dune. Memorization is linked to web popularity--lots of old classics + new sci-fi/fantasy. 1/6 arxiv.org/abs/2305.00118

🧨⚡️Check out a brand new #CLS resource! This survey of methods and issues breaks down: ➡️Authorship Attribution ➡️Genre Analysis ➡️Literary History ➡️Gender Analysis ➡️Canonicity / Prestige 🤯🤯🤯 clsinfra.io/resources/d3-2…

"The World Literature Knowledge Graph" a resource including 194,346 writers and their works gathered from three sources of knowledge: Wikidata, Open Library, and Goodreads. (Stranisci et al, 2023) paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2307.16659… resource: literaturegraph.di.unito.it

a small step toward detecting tectonic shifts in historical language change, Hagen and Ketzan: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3558/paper…

Thomas Pynchon and the Digital Humanities is now available for FREE and open access online! With 60+ graphs and tables on Pynchon's wildly experimental prose bit.ly/3uLYMQZ

In honor of the late, great DH pioneer Prof. David L. Hoover, my review of his last book on DSH (paywalled, contact me for free link): academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-ar…

Look what arrived! routledge.com/Multilingual-D… #languageDiversity #MultilingualDH

New article: Need a Good Book about Privacy? Evaluating Dictionary-Based Corpus Query for Detecting the Topic of Privacy in Literary Texts Dictionary methods are old school, but can still work! jcls.io/article/id/360…