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Estore. Ebook how to. The Mechanic Muse - What Is Distant Reading? Distant reading might prove to be a powerful tool for studying literature, and I’m intrigued by some of the lab’s other projects, from analyzing the evolution of chapter breaks to quantifying the difference between Irish and English prose styles.

The Mechanic Muse - What Is Distant Reading?

But whatever’s happening in this paper is neither powerful nor distant. (The plot networks were assembled by hand; try doing that without reading Hamlet.) By the end, even Moretti concedes that things didn’t unfold as planned. Somewhere along the line, he writes, he “drifted from quantification to the qualitative analysis of plot.” I admire Moretti’s honesty in saying this: most scholars, whatever their disciplinary background, do not publish negative results.

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