Distant Reading - Franco Moretti

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Résumé :
Franco Moretti...

Biographie:
Franco Moretti is the author of many books, including Graphs, Maps, Trees...

Sommaire:
Franco Moretti is a Professor Emeritus at Stanford, where he founded the Center for the Study of the Novel and the Literary Lab. He writes regularly for New Left Review and is a Permanent Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is the author of, among other books, Far Country, The Bourgeois and Graphs, Maps, Trees. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. His book Distant Reading won the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism....

The great iconoclast of literary criticism.--John Sutherland, Guardian It's a rare literary critic who attracts so much public attention, and there's a good reason: few are as hellbent on rethinking the way we talk about literature.--Times Literary Supplement Moretti, a mythopoeic figure, generates around himself a dense network of folklore and apocrypha.--n+1 Moretti is already famous in bookish circles for his data-centric approach to novels, which he graphs, maps, and charts ... if his new methods catch on, they could change the way we look at literary history.--Wired Distant reading might prove to be a powerful tool for studying literature.--New York Times