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