January 2, 2011
The Statistical Turn in Literary Studies
Michael Morgenstern for The Chronicle Review
Michael Morgenstern for The Chronicle Review
Humanists usually take to math like cats to water. But literary critics of late have been embracing statistics and other quantitative measures.
One prominent example is Franco Moretti, the Stanford professor of English and comparative literature. Moretti is a leading critic of the novel, with books such as Signs Taken for Wonders: Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms (Verso, 1983) and The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture (Verso, 1987) on
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