Pregled bibliografske jedinice broj: 1074689
Foundations of Distant Reading: Historical Roots, Conceptual Development and Theoretical Assumptions around Computational Approaches to Literary Texts
Foundations of Distant Reading: Historical Roots, Conceptual Development and Theoretical Assumptions around Computational Approaches to Literary Texts // DH2020: Carrefours/Intersections
Ottawa, Kanada, 2020. (predavanje, međunarodna recenzija, pp prezentacija, znanstveni)
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Naslov
Foundations of Distant Reading: Historical Roots,
Conceptual Development and Theoretical
Assumptions around Computational Approaches to
Literary Texts
Autori
Arias, Rosario ; Eder, Maciej ; Francois, Pieter ; Primorac, Antonija ; Schöch, Christof
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, pp prezentacija, znanstveni
Skup
DH2020: Carrefours/Intersections
Mjesto i datum
Ottawa, Kanada, 20.07.2020. - 25.07.2020
Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje
Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija
Ključne riječi
distant reading, digital humanities, computational approach, literature
Sažetak
The term 'distant reading' resonates across DH: It is played on in book titles (Distant Horizons, Underwood 2019) and adapted to new fields ('Distant Viewing', Arnold and Tilton 2019). It spurs alternative formulations ('Scalable Reading', Mueller 2012) and is present in mainstream media ("What is Distant Reading?", Schulz 2011). It is a popular and integrating term, but can take very specific meaning as well. However, the semantic content carried over in each case of adoption or adaption is often unclear. Recent debates, like the special issue of PMLA (On Franco Moretti’s Distant Reading 2017) or the paper by Nan Z. Da (Da 2019) and the reactions to it, have challenged some of the assumptions of 'distant reading'. Also, the polysemy of the term may have contributed to misunderstandings in these debates. Therefore, our aim is to recover the historicity of the term 'distant reading', first introduced by Franco Moretti (2000) in his discussion of world literature as a system, by delineating how its meaning has changed over time and reconstructing some of the key theoretical assumptions it carries both as a term, a concept and a practice. This contribution has emerged from work in the COST Action "Distant Reading for European Literary History" (CA16204, https://distant- reading.net), a pan-European, collaborative networking project launched in 2017.
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti
Napomena
COST Akcija
