Franco Moretti

Posted on 2013/10/23 by

Government Info-Tech Research Officer “Track[s] Emotions in Novels and Fairy Tales”

Maybe we should chat about this: “Empirical assessment of emotions in literary texts has sometimes relied on human annotation” but now an algorithmic “system determines which of the words exist in our emotion lexicon and calculates ratios such as the number of words associated with an emotion to the total number of emotion words in the text” for novels, Shakespeare, Read More

Posted on 2013/10/17 by

Probe: Phonographs, Maps, Carpentrees

When it comes to listening to vinyl, NYC artist Rutherford Chang antithesizes what Franco Moretti identifies as the “typical reader of novels” in Britain up to about 1820 (Moretti 71). Instead of “a ‘generalist…who reads absolutely anything, at random’” (Moretti 71, quoting Albert Thibaudet), Chang listens to and collects anything, mostly at random, of a Read More