Graphs, maps, trees : abstract models for a literary history
"Franco Moretti argues heretically that literature scholars should stop reading books and start counting, graphing, and mapping them instead. He insists that such a move could bring new lustre to a tired field, one that in some respects is among 'the most backward disciplines in the academy'. Literary study, he argues, has been random and unsystematic. For any given period scholars focus on a select group of a mere few hundred texts: the canon. As a result, they have allowed a narrow distorting slice of history to pass for the total picture."
Chronology
119 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
9781844670260, 1844670260
60671819
List of figures
Graphs, maps, trees
Graphs
Maps
Trees
Afterword by Alberto Piazza
Index