Wie ›Der Mann auf dem Hochrad‹ den Protagonisten des ›Schlangenbaums‹ auf Abwege führte. Hypothesengeleitete stilometrische Untersuchung zweier Romane Uwe Timms

Abstract

The subject of this article is the linking of a hypothesis-driven case study in literary studies with the application of digital humanities methods. Primary texts of the analysis are thirteen longer narrative texts by the German-language contemporary author Uwe Timm (novels and novellas, a legend). I derive hypotheses from one of his self-statements about the work, which I analyze by means of computer-assisted stylometric procedures. The aim is to build a bridge between a computational analysis and human readings in order to arrive at new insights into the literary work of the author.

Keywords

• literaturwissenschaft
• textanalyse
• literarischer stil
• statistische stilistik
• der schlangenbaum (roman)
• der mann auf dem hochrad (roman)