The Equivalence of 'Close' and 'Distant' Reading; Or, Toward a New Object for Data-Rich Literary History.
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The approaches to data-rich literary history that dominate academic and public debate—Franco Moretti’s “distant reading” and Matthew Jockers’s “macroanalysis”—model literary systems in limited, abstract, and often ahistorical ways. This problem arises from neglect of the activities and insights of textual scholarship and is inherited from, rather than opposed to, the New Criticism and its core method of “close reading.” Literary history requires not new or integrated methods but a new scholarly...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2017 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/156496 |
Source: | Modern Language Quarterly 78.1 (2017) |
DOI: | 10.1215/00267929-3699787 |
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