This is site is a collaborative project by Stéfan Sinclair & Geoffrey Rockwell to think through some foundations of contemporary text analysis, including issues related to the electronic texts used, the tools and methodologies available, and the various forms that can take the expression of results from text analysis.
This site is composed of three parts, all of which are works in progress:
We are closing in on a prospectus and sample chapters:
We are aiming to develop a prospectus which would have these parts:
I’ve taken a new tack on the case study on Humanist, renaming the essay “The sparrow flies swiftly through”.
I’ve added a draft chapter 2 on Tools for Interpretation. The goals for this chapter are:
I’ve adapted some ideas about thinking through to serve as an introduction to the book. I’m trying to weave together ideas of method starting with the DesCartes' Discourse on Method. Some of the threads: