Distant Reading

Produktbeschreibung

The formation of an unorthodox literary critic 

Kritik

The great iconoclast of literary criticism. John Sutherland Guardian 

Autoreninfo

Franco Moretti, geboren 1950, lehrt an der Stanford University, wo er das Center for the Study of the Novel leitet. Durch den Einsatz quantitativer Methoden zur Analyse riesiger Mengen von Büchern provoziert er immer wieder die klassische Literaturwissenschaft.
Franco Moretti is a Professor Emeritus at Stanford, where he founded the Center for the Study of the Novel and the Literary Lab. He writes regularly for New Left Review and is a Permanent Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is the author of, among other books, Far Country, The Bourgeois and Graphs, Maps, Trees. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. His book Distant Reading won the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.