Genre, Space and Literary History from the Perspective of Distant Reading: a Study of Frank Moretti's Literary Thought
by Gao Shubo
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Italian scholar Frank Moretti draws nourishment from the natural sciences and attempts to bridge the gap between the humanities and the natural sciences, thus bringing a breath of fresh air to literary research. Specifically, he integrated literature with knowledge resources from biology, history, sociology, geography, statistics, philosophy and other disciplines, and proposed the theory of "distance reading". Long-distance reading is a method of systematically using charts, maps, and tree models to analyze literary phenomena-charts come from quantitative history, maps come from geography, and tree models belong to the field of evolution. Based on this theory, Moretti is committed to thinking about the relationship between literary form and society, the relationship between genre and space, and the writing of literary history. His thinking framework has obvious Marxist characteristics.
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