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#Moretti
The Limits Of The Digital Humanities, By Adam Kirsch | New Republic
Moretti's distant reading
The New Critics gave us close reading, the engagement with the minute verbal nuances of a text, and the mode still thrives—Helen Vendler’s studies of Shakespeare’s sonnets and Dickinson’s poems are classic contemporary examples. But as Moretti argues in “Conjectures on World…
Understanding Digital Humanities (david M. Berry)
Traditional humanities focus on a fraction of the literary field
As Moretti (2007) points out, the traditional humanities focuses on a minimal fraction of the literary field ... [a] canon of two hundred novels, for instance, sounds very large for nineteenth-century Britain (and is much larger than the current one), but is still less than one…