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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 338–350.
Published: 01 November 2017
...? Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 global novel world-systems theory surface reading distant reading Franco Moretti Louis Althusser Of all Franco Moretti's masterworks of literary history and theory, why is it the loosely assembled collection of occasional pieces titled Distant...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 280–284.
Published: 01 August 2020
...). It is in this gesture toward the present, along with steady alignment of Victorian theories with later philosophies and approaches (affect theory, thing theory, distant reading, poststructuralism, neuroscience), that Morgan refuses to engage in a mere intellectual history. He is interested in what his epilogue calls...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 509–512.
Published: 01 November 2011
... form of what Jaffe
calls “distant reading” or the “organization of identity into culturally coherent categories
and emotional systems, enabling a reading of the self . . . as if viewed from without” (7).
“The stock market [and, by extension, the stock market graph] offers a striking example...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 158–161.
Published: 01 May 2016
... her affinity with recent work by Gordon Hutner and James English, and she explicitly claims a relationship with the distant reading school of Franco Moretti (13), although The Geopolitical Novel has a more proximate lineage within the field of American literary studies in particular...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 132–135.
Published: 01 May 2018
.... By the end, Jagoda's proposals for extreme presence begin to replicate the recent proliferation of different ways of reading in literary studies—distant reading, surface reading, descriptive reading, and so on—only now the topic is action-based media rather than literary texts, resulting in a new litany...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 452–464.
Published: 01 November 2017
... condition. But in material terms, the print text remains, and its material transformation depends on ordinary readers only in very distant and, finally, statistical ways. As Franco Moretti has argued persuasively under the theory of “distant reading,” such quantitative measures have much to tell us about...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 283–287.
Published: 01 August 2017
... would benefit from a healthy dose of social-science methodologies and keywords? Your answer probably depends upon a series of frames by which you understand the question: the debates themselves (close vs. distant reading), your own field and area priorities, perhaps the job market and your concomitant...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 121–129.
Published: 01 May 2021
... studies, especially when scholars avail themselves of digital tools (e.g., linguistic corpora, Google Ngrams) and literary critical practices that combine close and distant reading strategies. This method can alert us to polysemy, contestations of meaning, and semantic change over time, enabling us...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 475–478.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of the World is equally dismissive of Franco Moretti's model of distant reading. What is needed instead is close reading on a “world” scale, a method that would “block simplistic assumptions about the equivalence and translatability of texts and contexts in a ‘global’ perspective” (xvii). Much as I...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 179–182.
Published: 01 May 2016
... methods of analysis—what Franco Moretti has called “distant reading,” and Matthew Jockers has called “macroanalysis”—offer a solution by allowing us to study broader swathes of literary history, seeing large-scale patterns. Underwood illustrates this point by plotting the change in specialized literary...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 20–22.
Published: 01 May 2011
... in evolutionary biology than the individual historical organisms that might
have existed). Moretti plays the Darwinian cat among the pigeons of novelistic
singularity, proposing a statistical method combined with techniques of distant
reading that extrapolate and abstract general truths from so many novels...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 145–149.
Published: 01 May 2019
.... As if that were not enough, this book (from subtitle on) also challenges, albeit implicitly, recent megatrends in theories of reading and of the novel, including postcritique, distant reading, and surface reading. How to Read African American Literature therefore argues, also implicitly, for the power...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 44–63.
Published: 01 May 2019
... species or to capitalism would lead literary scholars to scale up, turning to big data, distant reading, and the very longue durée . Should not literary criticism invested in the Anthropocene follow the lead of Jussi Parikka's geology of media, giving up microscopic attention to individual cultural...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 469–473.
Published: 01 November 2015
... attention to detail—even though they at times also frustrate that method. Pressman's argument is refreshing. The reading culture of the digital era is often described in terms of distraction, search, or distant reading, but Digital Modernism demonstrates that close reading remains vital. Pressman...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 146–150.
Published: 01 May 2022
...), which she catalogs as if she were a collector of such methodologies: “book history and media study . . . , historical materialism, New Formalism, object-oriented ontology (or ‘new materialism’), traditional close-reading strategies, feminist critique, and networked or vaguely ‘distant’ reading practices...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 297–301.
Published: 01 August 2013
... interested in the history of reading. Whereas others
have worked to expand the field of material necessary to construct a history of nineteenth-
century reading—from Franco Moretti’s invitation to distant-read the entire extant corpus
of fiction to Leah Price’s very recent examination, in How to Do...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 388–396.
Published: 01 November 2017
... : Sceptre , 2004 . Moretti Franco . Distant Reading . London : Verso , 2013 . Morton Timothy . Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 2013 . Ricoeur Paul . Memory, History, Forgetting . Chicago : U of Chicago...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 157–175.
Published: 01 August 2017
... of such objects) can bear the full weight of this historical analysis. Indeed, to attempt such a reading would be to run counter to the distant-reading dictum that has gained considerable traction (alongside the object turn, it should be noted) in scholarly and funding-allocation circles alike. This last method...
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 337–366.
Published: 01 November 2023
...>. Creative Commons public domain dedication. ELTeC-English corpus (100 novels, 1840–1920) This data provides a benchmark to the larger set above. The European Literary Text Collection is created for the Distant Reading for European Literary History project. ELTeC-eng ( https://doi.org/10.5281...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 423–430.
Published: 01 November 2009
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ever, is not to trade textual interpretation for the methods of book history and
reception studies—close reading for distant reading, in Moretti’s shorthand—but
rather to show that each needs the other if we are to understand as fully as pos-
sible either a text’s intrinsic features or its...
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