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Graphs, Maps, Trees

by
Franco Moretti

[an overview of the reviews and critical reactions]

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Why we haven't reviewed it yet:
Intrigued, but not quite sure how to come to grips with it


Chances that we will review it:
Reasonable

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  From the Reviews:

• "At first glance intriguing, at second glance absurd, then seemingly pernicious, Mr. Moretti's diagrams are finally very interesting. (...) Mr. Moretti's graphs are convincing as contributions to the history of the book, but readers will wonder how a single text shrinks into a dot and dissolves into a line, while its value, as an instrument of reflection, remains perfectly amorphous." - Benjamin Lytal, The New York Sun

Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole. We acknowledge (and remind and warn you) that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure.

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Notes about the Reviews
and the Book's Reception:

       Moretti's approach got a decent amount of press coverage and was certainly widely-discussed, though for all that there weren't all that many actual reviews.

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Links:

• Verso publicity page
• Studying Literature By the Numbers by Emily Eakin
• Literature to Infinity by Scott McLemee

• Easily Distracted
• n+1
• The New York Sun

• Faculty page

• Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900
• [The Novel]

• See Index of Literary Essays

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About the Editor:

       Franco Moretti teaches English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University.

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