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Reviewed on February 1, 2019 | Arts & Humanities
Moretti (Distant Reading;$SPACE$The Bourgeois) is a leading proponent of literary computational analysis whereby large digital collections of literary texts are mined for historical and sociocultural meaning. This methodology is best exemplified by two of the six essays in this latest work. For example, "Walt Whitman or Charles Baudelaire?" examines sentence structure, repetition, modifiers, and the relation of adjectives to their nouns as seen in W...Log In or Sign Up to Read More