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Distant reading /

How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis. In presenting them here Franco Moretti reconstructs his intellectual trajectory...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moretti, Franco, 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Verso, 2013.
Subjects:
Criticism.
Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Literaturtheorie.
Literatur.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literature > Theory, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Modern European literature: a geographical sketch
  • Conjectures on world literature
  • The slaughterhouse of literature
  • Planet Hollywood
  • More conjectures
  • Evolution, world-systems, Weltliteratur
  • The end of the beginning: a reply to Christopher Prendergast
  • The novel: history and theory
  • Style, Inc.: reflections on 7,000 titles (British novels, 1740-1850)
  • Network theory, plot analysis.