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Grasping cities through literary representations: a mix of qualitative and quantitative approaches to analyze crime novels

Städte durch ihre literarischen Repräsentationen erfassen: ein Mix aus Qualitativen und Quantitativen Ansätzen zur Analyse von Kriminalromanen
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Rauscher, Janneke

Abstract

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, thei... view more

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 the depicted life worlds, thereby showing how novels could be used as data basis for urban sociology and interdisciplinary research questions about the distinctiveness of cities.... view less

Keywords
zone; linguistics; quantitative method; qualitative method; urban sociology; town; urban research; detective novel; content analysis; text analysis

Classification
Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods
Research Design
Sociology of Settlements and Housing, Urban Sociology

Method
development of methods; basic research

Free Keywords
intrinsic logic of cities; novels as data; quantitative literary analysis; close reading; distant reading; corpus linguistic; mixed methods; space

Document language
English

Publication Year
2014

Page/Pages
p. 68-102

Journal
Historical Social Research, 39 (2014) 2

Issue topic
Spatial analysis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.39.2014.2.68-102

ISSN
0172-6404

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0


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