Literature in the Laboratory

Franco Moretti; Giuseppe Episcopo

Literature in the Laboratory

Authors

Franco Moretti

Stanford University

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7941-8092

Giuseppe Episcopo

University of Edimburgh

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9641-6785

Keywords:

Digital Humanities, Computational Criticism, Quantitative Formalism, Literaty Lab

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA Press (Federico II Open Access University Press)

Book series: digitalis purpurea. Studies in Digital Humanities in Letteratura, Linguistica, Filologia

Pages: 443

Language: English

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-24610

Abstract: Literature in Laboratory is a collection of 12 Pamphlets published by the Stanford Literary Lab under the direction of its founder, Franco Moretti, from 2011 to 2017. Already translated into several languages, Moretti’s Literary Lab Pamphlets have opened up a new chapter in the fields of literary and digital studies by creating a new way of critically approaching texts. Moretti and his group of co-authors focused their experiments on the basic element by which literature is composed – namely, the language –, and conducted deep investigations on existing databases and unassisted corpus aiming at defining both a theoretical method and a precise technical procedure to be applied to literature. The essays presented in this book approach literature ranging from micro-linguistic dimensions to the larger scales of literary forms and genres through a series of quantitative measurements in order to increase, improve and develop a more precise understanding of ltheory and history of iterature.

Authors: Franco Moretti and Mark Algee-Hewitt, Sarah Allison, Marissa Gemma, Ryan Heuser, Leonardo Impett, Matthew Jockers, Maria Kanatova, Holst Katsma, Alexandra Milyakina, Dominique Pestre, Tatyana Pilipovec, Artjom Shelya, Oleg Sobchuk, Erik Steiner, Amir Tevel, Peeter Tinits, Irena Yamboliev, Hannah Walser, Michael Witmore.

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Author Biographies

Franco Moretti, Stanford University

Franco Moretti is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University, where he has founded the Center for the Study of the Novel and the Literary Lab. His books has been translated into several languages: Signs Taken for Wonders (1983), The Way of the World (1987), Modern Epic (1995), Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 (1998), Graphs, Maps, Trees (2005), The Bourgeois (2013), Distant Reading (2013), and, as a Chief Editor, The Novel (2006).

Giuseppe Episcopo, University of Edimburgh

Giuseppe Episcopo was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and a Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He edited and translated into Italian Fredric Jameson’s Brecht and Method (2008) and Raymond Chandler. The Detections of Totality (2018). He published the edited book Metahistorical Narratives and Scientific Metafictions (2015), and two monographs: L'eredità della fine (2016) on Stefano D’Arrigo and Thomas Pynchon, and Macchine d’espressione (2018) on Carlo Emilo Gadda