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Grasping cities through literary representations: a mix of qualitative and quantitative approaches to analyze crime novels
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In: Historical Social Research ; 39 ; 2 ; 68-102 ; Spatial analysis (2015)
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Grasping Cities through Literary Representations. A Mix of Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Analyze Crime Novels. ... : Grasping Cities through Literary Representations ...
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Contemporary crime novels often contain detailed literary representations of urban life worlds. These stagings can provide access to city-specific patterns and structures of thought, action and feeling, as well as locally established bodies of knowledge and processes of sense-making. Therefore, their systematic analysis can generate insights into the intrinsic logic of cities. To grasp such patterns on city level a preferably broad empirical basis is needed, but the study of large amounts of literary works poses a methodological challenge. This article presents a mix of methods that permits the analysis of vast quantities of (literary) texts through combining the classical qualitative close reading with elements from computer-aided qualitative content analysis, basic instruments from corpus linguistics and the methodology of distant reading in an iterative research process. It illustrates how to analyze qualitative data also quantitatively and on different levels with regard to social and spatial aspects of ... : Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung Vol. 39, No. 2 (2014): Special Issue: Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences and Humanities. Starting Point and Frequency: Year: 1979, Issues per volume: 4, Volumes per year: 1 ...
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.12759/hsr.39.2014.2.68-102
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