Distant Reading

Name: Distant Reading
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ISBN: 9781781680841

ISBN-10: 1781680841

ISBN-13: 9781781680841

Edition: 2013

Authors: Franco Moretti

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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, 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 of World Literature” and “Planet Hollywood,” to the quantitative findings of “Style, inc.” and the abstract patterns of “Network Theory, Plot Analysis,” the book follows…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 6/4/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.45" wide x 8.23" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



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


Index