CANON / ARCHIVE

For the past seven years, the Stanford Literary Lab, founded by Franco Moretti and Matthew Jockers, has been a leading site of liter ary scholarship aided by computers and algorithmic methods. This landmark volume gathers the collective research of the group and it s most remarkable experiments. From seemingly ineffable matters such as the loudness of thousands of novels, the geographic distri bution of emotions, the nature of a sentence and a paragraph, and the evolution of bureaucratic doublespeak, descriptions emerge. Th e Stanford...[Read more]