Distant Reading

by Moretti, Franco

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Title Statements

Full title :Distant Reading / Franco Moretti.

Summary

How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The 10 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, the theoretical influences over his work, and explores the polemics that have often developed around his positions. From the evolutionary model of 'Modern European Literature', through the geo-cultural insights of 'Conjectures on World Literature' and 'Planet Hollywood' to the quantitative findings of 'Style, inc.' and the abstract patterns of 'Network Theory, Plot Analysis', the book follows two decades of critical explorations that have come to define--well beyond the wildest expectations of its author--a growing field of unorthodox literary studies.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Verso
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

The Physical Object

Description:244 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781781680841, 1781680841, 9781781681121, 1781681120
oclc:ocn813931586
LC Classification:PN81
Dewey Decimal:801/.95

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.

Subjects

Criticism Criticism, interpretation, etc Criticismo Critique Europa European literature literary criticism Literatur Literatura -- Teoría, etc. -- Historia … Literature Literature -- History And Criticism Literature -- Theory, etc Literaturtheorie Litteraturanalys Littérature -- Histoire et critique