Distant Reading

  • Distant Reading
    By Franco Moretti

    The essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis.

  • Distant Reading
    By Franco Moretti

    How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis.

  • Distant Reading
    By Franco Moretti

    The formation of an unorthodox literary critic

  • Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry
    By Peter Middleton

    A dynamic account of the history, practice, and theory of poetry as performance. Distant Reading considers poetry as performance, offers new insights into its popularity, and proposes a new history...

  • Distant Reading
    By Franco Moretti

    ... read them. Distant reading: where distance, let me repeat it, is a condition of lcnowledge: it allows you to focus on units that are much smaller or much larger than the text: devices, themes, tropes—or genres and 48 Distant Reading.