Literary Lab, Pamphlet 11 (January 2016): «Canon/Archive. Large-scale Dynamics in the Literay Field»
Référence bibliographique : Literary Lab, Pamphlet 11 (January 2016): «Canon/Archive. Large-scale Dynamics in the Literay Field», , 2016.
Literary Lab, Pamphlet 11 (January 2016): «Canon/Archive. Large-scale Dynamics in the Literay Field»
Mark Algee-Hewitt, Sarah Allison, Marissa Gemma, Ryan Heuser, Franco Moretti, Hannah Walser
URL: http://litlab.stanford.edu/LiteraryLabPamphlet11.pdf
ISSN: 2164-1757 (online version)
Of the novelties introduced by digitization in the study of literature, the size of the archive is probably the most dramatic: we used to work on a couple of hundred nineteenth-century novels, and now we can analyze thousands of them, tens of thousands, tomorrow hundreds of thousands. It’s a moment of euphoria, for quantitative literary history: like having a telescope that makes you see entirely new galaxies. And it’s a moment of truth: so, have the digital skies revealed anything that changes our knowledge of literature?