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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 (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 (2007) 68 (4): 586–589.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Brian M. Reed Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry . By Peter Middleton. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. xviii + 241 pp. University of Washington 2007 Brian M. Reed is associate professor of English at the University...
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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. Copyright ©...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 401–404.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Katherine Bode References Bode Katherine . 2017 . “ The Equivalence of ‘Close’ and ‘DistantReading; or, Toward a New Object for Data-Rich Literary History .” MLQ 78 , no. 1 : 77 – 106 . McGurl Mark . 2016 . “ Everything and Less: Fiction in the Age of Amazon .” MLQ...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (1): 95–124.
Published: 01 March 2020
... particularly emphasized. Speaking about “Distant Reading after Moretti,” Lauren Klein ( 2018 ) points to systemic problems relating to the use of “computational methods that derive from statistical modeling and computational linguistics . . . applied to analyze texts at scale,” arguing that their “unduly...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 567–577.
Published: 01 December 2020
... valley life.” WReC’s response to the various calls by descriptivists and distant reading advocates to reform our critical and reading practices is to proffer a transformation of the conditions and processes of our own labor rather than to seek a solution rooted in methodological innovation...
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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
... 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 turn as it is usually defined. However...
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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
... of poetry to change by slightly exaggerating certain features that defined prestige in the recent past. Copyright © 2016 by University of Washington 2016 literary reviewing distant reading poetic diction literary prestige longue durée Because advocates of distant reading sometimes pit...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
... . Moretti Franco . 2013a . Distant Reading . London : Verso . Moretti Franco . 2013b . “ Operationalizing; or, The Function of Measurement in Literary Theory .” New Left Review , no. 84 : 103 – 19 . Ortolano Guy . 2009 . The Two Cultures Controversy: Science, Literature...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 465–489.
Published: 01 December 2020
... by “postcritique” approaches and Moretti’s distant reading, respectively, offer partial yet inadequate solutions to these crises, an inadequacy that we suggest is rooted in a fundamental inability or even refusal to grapple with the social and economic conditions that have created the crisis of higher education...
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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
... should call Reaping Something New “close reading at a distance” or “distant reading up close” is no matter; let us just call it what it is—literary history at its best. Nicholas T Rinehart is a doctoral candidate in English at Harvard University. His research has appeared in Callaloo...
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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
... . 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 : Mariner . Newlin George . 1995...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 277–295.
Published: 01 September 2016
... characterized as “distant reading,” an approach that seemed to bring literary studies (kicking and screaming) into the age of “big data,” its human-scale canons of masterworks subsumed into digitized corpora containing tens or hundreds of thousands of texts. A “crisis of largeness,” then: literary studies...