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High Lean Country captures the rich history and haunting character
of the New England region of northern New South Wales.The authors
explore how memory - of land, of family, of patterns of life on the
other side of the world - has influenced the identity of New
England. They also consider how the high country itself has shaped
its people and their sense of regional uniqueness. In doing so,
this book sets a new direction for understanding Australia as a
whole.Weaving together the histories of human settlement, economic,
social and cultural development, as well as interactions with the
environment, High Lean Country shows how colonial settlers strived
for decades to literally create a new England. It traces the story
of the graduates of Oxford and Cambridge who turned their hands to
sheep husbandry and developed a squattocracy, the establishment of
schools and other institutions, and the cultivation of traditional
arts. It also examines the early colonial bushranging period, and a
history of not always friendly relations between white settlers and
the local Aboriginal population.A project of the Heritage Futures
Research Centre at the University of New England, High Lean Country
is a fascinating study of this distinctive Australian high country.
High Lean Country captures the rich history and haunting character
of the New England region of northern New South Wales. The authors
explore how memory - of land, of family, of patterns of life on the
other side of the world - has influenced the identity of New
England. They also consider how the high country itself has shaped
its people and their sense of regional uniqueness. In doing so,
this book sets a new direction for understanding Australia as a
whole. Weaving together the histories of human settlement,
economic, social and cultural development, as well as interactions
with the environment, High Lean Country shows how colonial settlers
strived for decades to literally create a new England. It traces
the story of the graduates of Oxford and Cambridge who turned their
hands to sheep husbandry and developed a squattocracy, the
establishment of schools and other institutions, and the
cultivation of traditional arts. It also examines the early
colonial bushranging period, and a history of not always friendly
relations between white settlers and the local Aboriginal
population. A project of the Heritage Futures Research Centre at
the University of New England, High Lean Country is a fascinating
study of this distinctive Australian high country.
At the turn of the nineteenth century, publishing houses in London,
New York, Paris, Stuttgart, and Berlin produced books in ever
greater numbers. But it was not just the advent of mass printing
that created the era's "bookish" culture. According to Andrew
Piper, romantic writing and writers played a crucial role in
adjusting readers to this overflowing literary environment -
learning how to use and to want books was importantly a product of
the symbolic operations contained within books. Examining novels,
critical editions, gift books, translations, and illustrated
volumes, as well as the communities who made them, Dreaming in
Books tells a wide-ranging story of the book's identity at the turn
of the nineteenth century. In so doing, it shows how many of the
most pressing modern communicative concerns are not unique to the
digital age but emerged with a particular sense of urgency during
the bookish upheavals of the romantic era. In revisiting the book's
rise through the prism of romantic literature, Piper aims to revise
our assumptions about romanticism, the medium of the printed book,
and, ultimately, the future of the book in our so-called digital
age.
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Goethe Yearbook 17 (Hardcover)
Daniel Purdy; Contributions by Andrew Piper, Benjamin K Bennett, Chad Wellmon, Christian Clement, …
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New articles on topics spanning the Age of Goethe, with a special
section of fresh views of Goethe's Faust. The Goethe Yearbook is a
publication of the Goethe Society of North America, publishing
original English-language contributions to the understanding of
Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit, while also
welcomingcontributions from scholars around the world. Goethe
Yearbook 17 covers the full range of the era, from Karl Guthke's
essay on the early Lessing to Peter Hoeyng's on Grillparzer.
Notable is a special section, co-editedby Clark Muenzer and Karin
Schutjer, that samples some of the exciting new work presented at
the Goethe Society conference in November 2008: 200 years after the
publication of Faust I, eight essays offer fresh views of this epic
masterpiece, often through novel and surprising connections.
Authors link for example Faust's final ascension and the
circulation of weather, verse forms in the drama and the
performance of national identity, the fate of Gretchen and the
occult politics of Francis Bacon. Other papers explore
epistemological structures and taxonomies at work in Goethe's
prose, essays, and scientific writings. Contributors: Frederick
Amrine, Johannes Anderegg, Matthew Bell, Benjamin Bennett, Gerrit
Bruning, Christian Clement, Pamela Currie, Ulrich Gaier, Karl
Guthke, Stefan Hajduk, Peter Hoeyng, Clark Muenzer, Andrew Piper,
Herb Rowland, Heather Sullivan, Chad Wellmon, Ellwood Wiggins,
Markus Wilczek. Daniel Purdy is Associate Professor of German at
Pennsylvania State University. Book review editor Catriona MacLeod
is Associate Professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania.
For well over a century, academic disciplines have studied human
behavior using quantitative information. Until recently, however,
the humanities have remained largely immune to the use of data—or
vigorously resisted it. Thanks to new developments in computer
science and natural language processing, literary scholars have
embraced the quantitative study of literary works and have helped
make Digital Humanities a rapidly growing field. But these
developments raise a fundamental, and as yet unanswered question:
what is the meaning of literary quantity? In Enumerations, Andrew
Piper answers that question across a variety of domains fundamental
to the study of literature. He focuses on the elementary particles
of literature, from the role of punctuation in poetry, the matter
of plot in novels, the study of topoi, and the behavior of
characters, to the nature of fictional language and the shape of a
poet’s career. How does quantity affect our understanding of
these categories? What happens when we look at 3,388,230
punctuation marks, 1.4 billion words, or 650,000 fictional
characters? Does this change how we think about poetry, the novel,
fictionality, character, the commonplace, or the writer’s career?
In the course of answering such questions, Piper introduces readers
to the analytical building blocks of computational text analysis
and brings them to bear on fundamental concerns of literary
scholarship. This book will be essential reading for anyone
interested in Digital Humanities and the future of literary study.
This Element tackles the problem of generalization with respect to
text-based evidence in the field of literary studies. When working
with texts, how can we move, reliably and credibly, from individual
observations to more general beliefs about the world? The onset of
computational methods has highlighted major shortcomings of
traditional approaches to texts when it comes to working with small
samples of evidence. This Element combines a machine learning-based
approach to detect the prevalence and nature of generalization
across tens of thousands of sentences from different disciplines
alongside a robust discussion of potential solutions to the problem
of the generalizability of textual evidence. It exemplifies the way
mixed methods can be used in complementary fashion to develop
nuanced, evidence-based arguments about complex disciplinary issues
in a data-driven research environment.
Much ink has been spilled lamenting or championing the decline of
printed books. In Book Was There, Andrew Piper shows that the rich
history of reading itself offers unexpected clues to what lies in
store for books - print or digital. From medieval manuscript books
to today's interactive urban fictions, Piper explores the manifold
ways that physical media have shaped how we read. In doing so, he
uncovers the intimate connections we develop with our reading
materials-how we hold them, play with them, and even where we read
them - and shows how reading is interwoven with our experiences in
life. Piper reveals that reading's many identities, past and
present, on page and on screen, are the key to helping us
understand the kind of reading we care about and how new
technologies will - and will not-change old habits. Contending that
our experience of reading belies naive generalizations about the
future of books, Book Was There is an elegantly argued and
thoroughly up-to-date tribute to the endurance of books in our
ever-evolving digital world.
For well over a century, academic disciplines have studied human
behavior using quantitative information. Until recently, however,
the humanities have remained largely immune to the use of data—or
vigorously resisted it. Thanks to new developments in computer
science and natural language processing, literary scholars have
embraced the quantitative study of literary works and have helped
make Digital Humanities a rapidly growing field. But these
developments raise a fundamental, and as yet unanswered question:
what is the meaning of literary quantity? In Enumerations, Andrew
Piper answers that question across a variety of domains fundamental
to the study of literature. He focuses on the elementary particles
of literature, from the role of punctuation in poetry, the matter
of plot in novels, the study of topoi, and the behavior of
characters, to the nature of fictional language and the shape of a
poet’s career. How does quantity affect our understanding of
these categories? What happens when we look at 3,388,230
punctuation marks, 1.4 billion words, or 650,000 fictional
characters? Does this change how we think about poetry, the novel,
fictionality, character, the commonplace, or the writer’s career?
In the course of answering such questions, Piper introduces readers
to the analytical building blocks of computational text analysis
and brings them to bear on fundamental concerns of literary
scholarship. This book will be essential reading for anyone
interested in Digital Humanities and the future of literary study.
At the turn of the nineteenth century, publishing houses in London,
New York, Paris, Stuttgart, and Berlin produced books in ever
greater numbers. But it was not just the advent of mass printing
that created the era's "bookish" culture. According to Andrew
Piper, romantic writing and romantic writers played a crucial role
in adjusting readers to this increasingly international and
overflowing literary environment. Learning how to use and to want
books occurred through more than the technological, commercial, or
legal conditions that made the growing proliferation of books
possible; the making of such bibliographic fantasies was
importantly a product of the symbolic operations contained within
books as well. Examining novels, critical editions, gift books,
translations, and illustrated books, as well as the communities who
made them, "Dreaming in Books" tells a wide-ranging story of the
book's identity at the turn of the nineteenth century. In so doing,
it shows how many of the most pressing modern communicative
concerns are not unique to the digital age but emerged with a
particular sense of urgency during the bookish upheavals of the
romantic era. In revisiting the book's rise through the prism of
romantic literature, Piper aims to revise our assumptions about
romanticism, the medium of the printed book, and, ultimately, the
future of the book in our so-called digital age.
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