Reading machines : toward an algorithmic criticism /
Stephen Ramsay.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2011.
- 1 online resource.
- Topics in the digital humanities .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Preconditions -- An algorithmic criticism -- Potential literature -- Potential readings -- The turing text -- Patacomputing -- Postconditions.
Besides familiar and now-commonplace tasks that computers do all the time, of what else are they capable? Stephen Ramsay's intriguing study of computational text analysis examines how computers can be used as 'reading machines' to open up entirely new possibilities for literary critics.