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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 395–418.
Published: 01 September 2016
... . Stanford Literary Lab Pamphlet Series . litlab.stanford.edu/LiteraryLabPamphlet8 . Allison Sarah , Heuser Ryan , Jockers Matthew , Moretti Franco , and Witmore Michael . 2011 . Quantitative Formalism: An Experiment . January 15 . Stanford Literary Lab Pamphlet Series...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2014
... for the breakdown of sympathy and a broader one for the irreducible complexity of being. Such complexity inflects the very structure of what scholars, after Franco Moretti, call the quantitative analysis of literature (in the conversion of texts to countable units: one, two, three, etc.). It also reveals how texts...
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Modern Language Quarterly 11366127.
Published: 18 September 2024
... in a literary economy. When this accrual (or lack thereof) is quantified using computational methodologies, we can track where critical attention goes, how much of it, and why. As a proof of this concept, the article offers a quantitative analysis of critical attention in Roland Barthes’s S/Z . This work...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 345–367.
Published: 01 September 2016
... a quantitatively scaled-up approach, rather than reinforcing an image of global textual flows as singular and monolithic, illuminates world literature as a system constituted by patterns of divergence in structure and of difference in sameness. Copyright © 2016 by University of Washington 2016 world...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 369–393.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Günter Leypoldt Abstract How can we relate the quantitative presence of literary artifacts to their ability to make a difference, and how does the problem of scale define public accounts of what can be considered relevant literary value? The idea of a singular space of reception (one literary...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 201–224.
Published: 01 June 2021
... a quantitative diachronic analysis of 230 years of French novels. While these trends cannot by their very nature show the birth of the concept of fiction—which was never born in the first place—they are the type of evidence that should be central to any future history of fiction. Monika Fludernik ( 2018 ) also...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (1): 95–124.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Katherine Bode There are many ways to include diverse literary researchers, cultures, and communities in quantitative literary studies; all begin with recognizing and reassessing the political and ethical implications of our approaches and assumptions. Literary data sets are not ontologically...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 277–295.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of literary analysis. They stand in a more complex relationship to that tendency, converging with it at numerous points. The rich critical literature that has sprung up around minor characters, for example, has been bolstered by quantitative computational analysis of what Woloch ( 2003 : 13) calls...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (1): 32–36.
Published: 01 March 1961
... to
force identical quantitative values on syllables in the illustrative poems
of the Observations in the Art of English Poesie. Take, for example,
these lines from “Rose-cheekt LuwruJJ:
El& musick,-w either-w- other w
- w
Sweetly gracing,-v...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., particularly in the work of Franco Moretti. Such claims, however, are sometimes the repackaging of older methodologies. Copyright © 2018 by University of Washington 2018 digital humanities literature and science quantitative methodology The most striking change in recent literary scholarship has...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 401–404.
Published: 01 September 2021
... literary works as stable, self-contained, and self-identical arrangements of words, thus obscuring the many ways in which literature is constituted by its material forms and historical relations. Quantitative arguments grounded in this framework tend to model literary systems in limited, abstract...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (4): 427–444.
Published: 01 December 2003
... is
mentioned only as a writer of rhyming quantitative verse. Richelet is no
fan of quantitative verse, although he grudgingly admits that the
rhymed kind is better than the unrhymed:
Lors que les Pöetes connurent que les vers mesurez ne plaisoient point,
ils les rimerent. Ils firent mesme des vers...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (4): 505–526.
Published: 01 December 2012
... much-discussed topic, rhyme, marked a perhaps even more
fundamental barrier between European vernacular poetry and its
Greek and Roman antecedents. Drama and epic might be structured
to conform to Aristotle’s Poetics, but writing poetry in the unrhymed,
quantitative meters of antiquity...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (1): 77–106.
Published: 01 March 2017
... years” to when “we’ll be able to search just about all novels that have ever been published and look for patterns among billions of sentences” and notes that, where literary studies has previously experienced “the rise of quantitative evidence . . . without producing lasting effects, . . . this time...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 491–525.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Iyyer et al. 2016 . 26 The supposed need for an “optional concentration” to prepare DH graduate students for computation (Underwood 2019 : 163) could soon be obviated by the new quantitative emphases of basic education (my seventeen-year-old was taught how to read scatterplots like...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (3): 372–373.
Published: 01 September 1946
... these years Howard’s Shenan-
doah, MacKaye’s Money Mad, Thomas’ Alabama, Young’s Ganelon,
and Hoyt’s A Trip to Chinatown had first performances, and
achieved varying measures of success. Quantitatively, of course,
musical productions, cheap melodrama, and variety entertainment
attracted the most...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (2): 266–267.
Published: 01 June 1940
... the
experimenters found that “quantitative variation in a stressed vowel due to
a change in phonetic environment is . . . the same in vowels of different quali-
ty,” they based their results on analysis of 68 records of tooten [tutan] and
55 records of tooty [tut
The Results: Stress level...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (2): 242–243.
Published: 01 June 1943
... evidence in
their assembled materials that Shakespeare was an apprentice to the
law. For the quality of one reference in its proper background might
outweigh any quantity of references. Quantitative parallels with
fellow dramatists give us only the literary habits of these authors.
For, as our...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 271–279.
Published: 01 June 2021
.... And in that process, while letting books weigh in as heavily as we like, let’s not throw out the lively and lovely smaller forms. Something resembling a quantitative assessment has a vestigial plausibility if a tenure decision is an accounting of the achievements of an assistant professor. I prefer to think...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (1): 113–114.
Published: 01 March 1952
... mainly to
the level of statistics. True enough “in such indexes . . . there is seen the baby
figure of the giant mass of things to come at large” (Shakespeare), but it is
seen quantitatively only. Quality is not considered. This is a pity, because any-
one who wants to work in the field...
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