Franco Moretti's GRAPHS, MAPS, TREES: ABSTRACT
MODELS FOR LITERARY HISTORY is one of the most
provocative recent works of literary history. The
present volume collects generalist and specialist,
academic and nonacademic responses by statisticians,
philosophers, historians, literary scholars and others.
And Moretti's responses to these responses. Originally
written as contributions to an online book event hosted
at The Valve (www.thevalve.org), and edited for this
volume, these essays explore, extend and criticize many
aspects of Franco Moretti's work. They will be of
interest to anyone interested in Moretti's brand of
"distant reading"; or in the prospects for quantitative
approaches to literary style and genre; or recent
interdisciplinary work in the humanities generally. |
CONTRIBUTORS: Bill Benzon, Tim Burke, Jenny Davidson,
Ray Davis, Jonathan Goodwin, Eric Hayot, John Holbo,
Steven Berlin Johnson, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Sean
McCann, Franco Moretti, Adam Roberts, Cosma Shalizi. |
ABOUT THE EDITORS: JONATHAN GOODWIN is Assistant
Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at
Lafayette. He works on modernist literature, film, and
narrative theory. JOHN HOLBO is an Associate Professor
of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore
and the author, with Belle Waring, of Reason and
Persuasion: Three Dialogues by Plato (Pearson
2009).
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