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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (1): 77–106.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Katherine Bode Abstract The approaches to data-rich literary history that dominate academic and public debate—Franco Moretti’s “distant reading” and Matthew Jockers’s “macroanalysis”—model literary systems in limited, abstract, and often ahistorical ways. This problem arises from neglect...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (4): 586–589.
Published: 01 December 2007
... poets as John Ashbery, Susan Howe, Tom Raworth, and Rosmarie Waldrop. University of Washington 2007 Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry . By Peter Middleton. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. xviii + 241 pp. Reviews
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 491–525.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Lauren M. E. Goodlad Abstract This essay explores “distant reading,” first, as a project of studying genre at supratextual scales of analysis (from early conceptions to computationalist successors) and, second, through the prescient late Victorian literary persona with which the latter practices...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 225–251.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Ben Etherington Abstract This essay revisits critical-humanist approaches to literary totality that have largely been sidelined during the recent revival of world literature studies. While there has been no shortage of defenses of close reading in the face of distant reading and other positivist...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (3): 261–286.
Published: 01 September 2019
...; read as a model for tastemaking, it becomes intelligible. While Pope’s classicizing moral and aesthetic values can seem distant from the assumptions of our late liberal culture, the techniques he uses to “rule” tastes indirectly remain fundamental imperatives in liberal aesthetic culture. Pope...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 401–404.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Katherine Bode katherine.bode@anu.edu.au Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021 The Equivalence of ‘Close’ and ‘Distant’ Reading; or, Toward a New Object for Data-Rich Literary History,” published in MLQ in 2017, considered the methodological assumptions of two prominent...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (1): 95–124.
Published: 01 March 2020
...’ and ‘Distant’ Reading; or, Toward a New Object for Data-Rich Literary History .” MLQ 78 , no. 1 : 77 – 106 . Bode Katherine . 2018 . A World of Fiction: Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press . Bode Katherine...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 567–577.
Published: 01 December 2020
....” The contemporary African novel in relation to world literature is the focal point of Eleni Coundouriotis’s consideration of that domain of fiction in relation to concepts of the world and worldliness, while Lauren M. E. Goodlad’s discussion of what distant reading may or may not offer to literary studies...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (4): 575–578.
Published: 01 December 2007
... December 2007
Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contempo-
rary Poetry. By Peter Middleton. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press,
2005. xviii + 241 pp.
Peter Middleton’s Distant Reading challenges the nearly ubiquitous practice
of close reading in the humanities...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (4): 578–582.
Published: 01 December 2007
... On Not Being Someone Else. His essay “Perfectly Help-
less” appeared in the March 2002 issue of MLQ.
doi 10.1215/00267929-2007-018
586 MLQ December 2007
Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contempo-
rary Poetry. By Peter Middleton...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 553–566.
Published: 01 December 2020
.... This is not a plea for recognition but just a statement of fact. The five essays in this issue provide different and invigorating methods to address the question of “what is and isn’t changing.” Only Lauren M. E. Goodlad on distant reading and Tim Dean on descriptive reading speak directly to the postcritical...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (4): 582–585.
Published: 01 December 2007
... On Not Being Someone Else. His essay “Perfectly Help-
less” appeared in the March 2002 issue of MLQ.
doi 10.1215/00267929-2007-018
586 MLQ December 2007
Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contempo-
rary Poetry. By Peter Middleton...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 321–344.
Published: 01 September 2016
... agencies. Distant reading conflicts with literary historians’ existing goals only in the practical sense that it takes a lot of time. This article discusses a medium-size corpus of 720 volumes, but to get those texts, we had to map a much larger digital library (including nearly a million volumes...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
... into the scientific materialism of his current incarnation. In doing so, he has also thrown down the gauntlet to American literary scholars. The rhetorical force behind “distant reading” is an attack on literary scholarship mainly still identified with latter-day versions of New Critical “close reading...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 465–489.
Published: 01 December 2020
... observations about the vastness of the archive are deeply connected with the question of academic labor. Nonetheless, instead of a robustly collective alternative to individual projects of close reading, Moretti’s “distant reading” turns out to involve the organization of labor along Taylorist lines: the work...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (4): 581–589.
Published: 01 December 2016
...—that is, construct it as an object of knowledge—only by giving up the fetish of close reading and instead practicing distant reading. In these same recent years Moretti was also exploring what he called “abstract models for a literary history” (Moretti 2005 ) and launching big-data experiments in the Stanford...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (2): 237–240.
Published: 01 June 2018
... in Hack 2008 ), Walkowitz finds this method more like “distant reading up close”: it tracks “how an original text with ‘intrinsic features’ travels from one political context to another, and how it is deployed in each of those contexts” (87). In both cases, I remain unconvinced that the analytic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2014
... understand how and why literary
history merits a privileged place in the new economy of information.
Franco Moretti’s influentialGraphs, Maps, Trees expounds a new method
of interpretation — distant reading — on the basis of the visual display of
big data. But it is not data per se that lure...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 315–343.
Published: 01 September 2021
... : Verso . Moretti Franco . 2013 . Distant Reading . New York : Verso . Murphet Julian . 2010 . “ ‘The Wire’ and Realism .” Sydney Studies in English 36 : 52 – 76 . Nabokov Vladimir . 2002 . Lectures on Literature , edited by Bowers Fredson . San Diego...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 277–295.
Published: 01 September 2016
.... In other words, although these essays rely on different methods and express different opinions, we do not present them primarily as a debate that dramatizes a clash between incompatible (close or distant, deep or surficial) approaches to reading—yet another skirmish in the “reading wars” (Hensley 2012...
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