General Information

Language

English.

Published

New York : N+1 Foundation, 2017.

Physical Description

xvii, 315 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Series

N+1 books

Contributors

Contributor

Moretti, Franco, 1950- (editor)

Contents/Summary

Summary

"For the past seven years, the Stanford Literary Lab, founded by Franco Moretti and Matthew Jockers, has been a leading site of literary scholarship aided by computers and algorithmic methods. This landmark volume gathers the collective research of the group and its most remarkable experiments. From seemingly ineffable matters such as the "loudness" of thousands of novels, the geographic distribution of emotions, the nature of a sentence and a paragraph, and the evolution of bureaucratic doublespeak, descriptions emerge. The Stanford Literary Lab lets the computers provide new insights for questions from the deep tradition of two centuries of literary inquiry. Rather than, like the rest of us, letting the computers lead. The results are adventurous, witty, challenging, profound. The old questions can finally get new answers--as the prelude to new big questions. Canon/Archive is the fulfillment and further development of "distant reading," adding a rare, full-length monument to the piecemeal progress of the digital humanities. No student, teacher, or inquisitive reader of literature will want to be without this book--just as no one interested in the new data-attentive methods in history, criticism, and the social sciences can afford to evade its summons"--Back cover.

Subjects

Subject

Literary form > Data processing.

English fiction > 19th century > Data processing.

Literature and technology.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Franco Moretti, editor.

Note

"The chapters in this book were originally published as pamphlets by the Stanford Literary Lab"--Title page verso.

Content

Preface : Literature, measured / Franco Moretti -- Part 1. Quantitative formalism / Sarah Allison, Ryan Heuser, Matthew Jockers, Franco Moretti, Michael Witmore ; Style at the scale of the sentence / Sarah Allison, Marissa Gemma, Ryan Heuser, Franco Moretti, Amir Tevel, Irena Yamboliev ; On paragraphs / Mark Algee-Hewitt, Ryan Heuser, Franco Moretti -- Part 2. "Operationalizing" / Franco Moretti ; Loudness in the novel / Holst Katsma ; From keyboards to cohorts / Ryan Heuser, Long-Le-Khac ; Bankspeak / Franco Moretti, Dominique Pestre ; Mapping London's emotions / Ryan Heuser, Franco Moretti, Erik Steiner -- Part 3. Canon/Archive / Mark Algee-Hewitt, Sarah Allison, Marissa Gemma, Ryan Heuser, Franco Moretti, Hannah Waiser -- Conclusion : Patterns and interpretation / Franco Moretti.

ISBN

9780997031874

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	801.9/5 MOR		Reference	-

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