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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 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): 277–295.
Published: 01 September 2016
... massively expanded its institutional footprint and widened its cultural power while for the most part maintaining an orthodoxy of methodological constraint with respect to the scope of its analytic procedures and its expertise. Then, in the final quarter of the century, the great contraction ended...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 401–404.
Published: 01 September 2021
[email protected] 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 computational literary scholars: Franco...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (1): 77–106.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., traditional textual analysis can provide insights into the meaning of particular literary works that quantitative studies cannot. But the focus on methodological capacities or limitations overlooks the lack of an appropriately historicized object for data-rich analysis, more specifically the fact...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (3): 285–286.
Published: 01 September 1955
... of such relatively insular talents as George Herbert
and Mijrike, differs from less quantitatively directed views as markedly as the
well-known New Yorker’s map of America differs from a more conventionally
scaled one. Yet in sketching their network of literary interrelations, the authors
do not confine...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (4): 295–311.
Published: 01 December 1954
... of the most complex, rich, and varied periods of modern history.
His book is neither a survey nor a series of individual studies; it is a
philosophic interpretation of the eighteenth century written from a
personal viewpoint and applying a special methodology. The reviewer
of this work...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (1): 87–89.
Published: 01 March 2023
... methods make their mark on a field? As activity around an emerging methodology grows, a signal of maturity is the appearance of book-length treatments of the subject. For network analysis in early modern English literature, Blaine Greteman’s Networking Print in Shakespeare’s England is such a book...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (3): 208–221.
Published: 01 September 1954
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quantitatively. This fact that the mentality encouraged by the New-
tonian milieu operated largely numerically, geometrically, quantita-
tively, has considerable relevance in Swift’s case. Conceptualization in
terms of an isolated system which tended...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 491–525.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of models within subfields like narratology. Maybe this is not “our” first rodeo. As the historian Stephen Stigler ( 1986 : 1) writes, statistics offers “a quantitative technology for empirical science; it is a logic and methodology for the measurement of uncertainty.” Insofar as DH scholarship hews...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (4): 573–580.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of historicist, surface, and quantitative reading. Significantly, the book is among the first offerings of the new Lit Z series, which Guyer edits together with Brian McGrath and which purports (quoting from the flyleaf) to embrace “the survival of romanticism as a form of contemporary criticism” through...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 419–445.
Published: 01 September 2016
.... In literary studies method has often been understood only as interpretation or theory. Empirical and quantitative work in literary studies is increasingly concerned with questions of method, but the field has also witnessed a “methodological turn.” In a recent example of such thinking that draws...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 347–360.
Published: 01 September 2023
... the formalists, and their methodologies, which have kept pace with and sometimes led the digitization of the humanities, are relatively objectivist, quantitative, and, for these reasons, in tension with historicist relativism. Yet historical stylistics, a branch within the subfield, has much in common...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (3): 277–291.
Published: 01 September 2011
... to be
talking about shareholder value, best value, and above all added value.”1
Indeed, the global financial crisis that struck in 2008 has increased the
public’s awareness of the term’s associations, both quantitative (“What
exactly is in my 401(k and qualitative (“Did all that shopping make
me happier...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (4): 473–498.
Published: 01 December 2016
... poetics had not yet become an academic subject or a sustained cultural discourse. This essay offers medieval English poetry as a case in point for historical poetics, thereby bringing a different literary archive to bear on methodological debates about the historical study of poetics. Three case studies...
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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 (2023) 84 (2): 129–146.
Published: 01 June 2023
... into question the basic opposition between quantitative and qualitative research and between the humanities and the sciences. It was as I struggled to introduce students to literary studies, then, that it dawned on me that critics across schools—New Critical, structuralist, feminist, historicist...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (1): 65–80.
Published: 01 March 2016
... rhythm and rhyme, are well suited for theorizing the repetitions of political power through their own intrinsic repetitiveness. Copyright © 2016 by University of Washington 2016 repetition politics rhythm rhyme Spenserian stanza The natural sciences and the quantitative social sciences...
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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 (2020) 81 (4): 553–566.
Published: 01 December 2020
... used by Erin O’Connor ( 2003 ) to critique postcolonial analyses of Victorian novels, the use of and engagement with the postcolonial still provide a methodological challenge to modes of criticism advanced under the global and the world. Postcolonial literary criticism remains attuned to questions...
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