Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve 在线电子书 图书标签: 数据分析 文学 非虚构 英文 美国 写作 Books-About-Books 文化
发表于2024-05-20
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非常有趣;不只是将纳博科夫的,主要对多种文学作品内容的词频分析,有很多有趣的结论。
评分Amazing…换成中文就是:有趣极了。
评分为被嫌弃的同人作者默哀一分钟……美国人写作“也很大声”这个例子让人终生难忘
评分第七章特别有意思,感觉这个feature engineering做起来会很好玩
评分引人入胜,两天一气儿读完。很欣赏作者对分析结果谨慎谦虚的解读。如果说像FiveThirtyEight类似的分析是带点功利主义的,但对文学用数据的解读不太可能是为了reverse-engineer出最好的写作模式,看喜欢的作家们好像被排成一排检视一番看说没说真话确实是种新奇有趣的体验
Ben Blatt is a former staff writer for Slate and The Harvard Lampoon who has taken his fun approach to data journalism to topics such as Seinfeld, mapmaking, The Beatles, and Jeopardy! His previous book, co-written with Eric Brewster, is I Don't Care if We Never Get Back, which follows the duo’s quest to go on the mathematically optimal baseball road trip, traveling 20,000 miles to a game in all thirty ballparks in thirty days without planes. Blatt’s work has also been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and Deadspin.
There’s a famous piece of writing advice—offered by Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King, and myriad writers in between—not to use -ly adverbs like “quickly” or “fitfully.” It sounds like solid advice, but can we actually test it? If we were to count all the -ly adverbs these authors used in their careers, do they follow their own advice compared to other celebrated authors? What’s more, do great books in general—the classics and the bestsellers—share this trait?
In Nabokov’s Favorite Word Is Mauve, statistician and journalist Ben Blatt brings big data to the literary canon, exploring the wealth of fun findings that remain hidden in the works of the world’s greatest writers. He assembles a database of thousands of books and hundreds of millions of words, and starts asking the questions that have intrigued curious word nerds and book lovers for generations: What are our favorite authors’ favorite words? Do men and women write differently? Are bestsellers getting dumber over time? Which bestselling writer uses the most clichés? What makes a great opening sentence? How can we judge a book by its cover? And which writerly advice is worth following or ignoring?
Blatt draws upon existing analysis techniques and invents some of his own. All of his investigations and experiments are original, conducted himself, and no math knowledge is needed to understand the results. Blatt breaks his findings down into lucid, humorous language and clear and compelling visuals. This eye-opening book will provide you with a new appreciation for your favorite authors and a fresh perspective on your own writing, illuminating both the patterns that hold great prose together and the brilliant flourishes that make it unforgettable.
Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve 在线电子书 pdf 下载 txt下载 epub 下载 mobi 下载 2024