The myth of the new: Mass digitization, distant reading, and the future of the book

Literary and Linguistic Computing

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 629-639

  Gooding, Paul ^a   Terras, Melissa ^a   Warwick, Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84886408499     PISSN: 02681145     EISSN: 14774615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqt051     Document Type: Article

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