Distant Reading

The formation of an unorthodox literary critic.How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficient?In the ten essays collected in this volume, Franco Moretti reconstructs the intellectual trajectory of his philosophy of 'distant reading'. From the evolutionary model of 'Modern European Literature', through the geo-cultural dominant of 'Conjectures on World Literature' and 'Planet Hollywood' to the quantitative findings of ...