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Distant Reading
Franco Moretti
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Description for Distant Reading
Paperback. The formation of an unorthodox literary critic Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 336.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781680841
SKU
V9781781680841
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About Franco Moretti
Franco Moretti is the author of many books, including Graphs, Maps, Trees; The Bourgeois; and Distant Reading, winner of the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He is Professor Emeritus at Stanford, where he founded the Center for the Study of the Novel and the Literary Lab.
Reviews for Distant Reading
The great iconoclast of literary criticism.
John Sutherland
Guardian
It's a rare literary critic who attracts so much public attention, and there's a good reason: few are as hellbent on rethinking the way we talk about literature.
Times Literary Supplement
Moretti, a mythopoeic figure, generates around himself a dense network of folklore and apocrypha.
... Read more
John Sutherland
Guardian
It's a rare literary critic who attracts so much public attention, and there's a good reason: few are as hellbent on rethinking the way we talk about literature.
Times Literary Supplement
Moretti, a mythopoeic figure, generates around himself a dense network of folklore and apocrypha.
... Read more