Distant Reading – how much distance can we bear?
In his book “Distant Reading” (Moretti, 2013), which I recently presented here, Franco Moretti deliberately and surely a bit provocatively claims that it would be useless to read more and more. Instead, literary scholars should finally learn the art of…
MACHINE LEARNING: WHAT TO CONSIDER WHEN CREATING TRAINING DATA (FOR LITERARY STUDIES)
Machine Learning sounds like a promising new world for literary studies. Sounds like we can put something into our computers, press a button and then only have to interpret consistent data… But when you start to really get into it…
Reading biographically
In literary studies it is a little frowned upon to read biographically. In the book trade one can hardly escape the advertising factor of biographically coloured stories. But what’s actually against it? And why is it sometimes difficult to get…
Academic blogging: How to make your blog citable
It was one of my top blog goals for this year: To make my blog-posts citable. I must say, I had quite a bit of respect for the extra effort. But before I knew it, I had already written the…
