Accordingly, Moretti utilizes tools capable of performing a critical analysis that require only a cursory reading of the texts in question, or perhaps no reading at all. More substantively, Moretti is committed to the claim that formal attention is essential to literary criticism he remarks that formal analysis is “the great accomplishment of literary study.” Yet he wants to examine formal features, “the repeatable element of literature,” on a much broader scale than close reading of individual texts permits. They do so by preserving the critical emphasis on literary form, while increasing exponentially the quantity of text one is able to analyze. As he puts it, “quantitative methodologies” offer a new way of doing literary history, opening up “the Great Unread” of uncanonized literary works to analysis. At the center of Franco Moretti’s attempt to enact a revolution -or at least a mild shift-in the methods of literary study are the tools of statistical analysis.
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