'A thing not beginning and not ending': Using digital tools to distant-read Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans

Literary and Linguistic Computing

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 361-381

  Clement, Tanya E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

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EID: 55149120110     PISSN: 02681145     EISSN: 14774615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqn020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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