Keyword

distant reading

Description: Distant reading is a computational approach to literary studies that analyzes patterns across large bodies of texts rather than interpreting individual works closely.

Primary topic: Digital Humanities and Scholarship (62%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q31271732

OpenAlex ID: keywords/distant-reading

Graphs, maps, trees: abstract models for a literary history

2006 · Choice Reviews Online · 1,401

On Close and Distant Reading in Digital Humanities: A Survey and Future Challenges

2015 · Jänicke, Stefan, Franzini, Greta, et al. · Eurographics · 248

A Genealogy of Distant Reading

2017 · Ted Underwood · Digital humanities quarterly · 195

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Visual Text Analysis in Digital Humanities

2016 · S. Jänicke, G. Franzini, et al. · Computer Graphics Forum · 141

Distant Horizons: Digital Evidence and Literary Change

2019 · Ted Underwood · 134

Where Do We Stand in Cryptocurrencies Economic Research? a Survey Based on Hybrid Analysis

2020 · Aurelio F. Bariviera, Ignasi Merediz‐Solà · Journal of Economic Surveys · 127

What Was “Close Reading”?

2016 · Barbara Herrnstein Smith · Minnesota Review · 122

Introduction: Understanding the Digital Humanities

2012 · David M. Berry · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 113

The Equivalence of “Close” and “Distant” Reading; or, Toward a New Object for Data-Rich Literary History

2017 · Katherine Bode · Modern Language Quarterly · 110

Faraway, So Close: Seeing the Intimacy in Goodreads Reviews

2018 · Beth Driscoll, DeNel Rehberg Sedo · Qualitative Inquiry · 89

The Medical Case Narrative: Distant Reading of an Epistemic Genre

2014 · Gianna Pomata · Literature and medicine · 84

Why Distant Reading Isn't

2017 · Johanna Drucker · PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America · 78

Digital Humanities in the Anthropocene

2015 · B. Nowviskie · Digital Scholarship in the Humanities · 71

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Mind and Body in Early China

2019 · Edward Slingerland · Oxford University Press eBooks · 69

Grasping Rhetoric and Composition by Its Long Tail: What Graphs Can Tell Us about the Field’s Changing Shape

2012 · Derek Mueller · College Composition and Communication · 69

Counting Culture; or, How to Read Victorian Newspapers from a Distance

2012 · Bob Nicholson · Journal of Victorian Culture · 62

Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry

2005 · Hannah Lavery, Peter Middleton · Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature · 59

The early history of digital humanities: An analysis of Computers and the Humanities (1966–2004) and Literary and Linguistic Computing (1986–2004)

2019 · Chris Alen Sula, Heather V Hill · Digital Scholarship in the Humanities · 56

A Conversation with Data: Prospecting Victorian Words and Ideas

2011 · Gibbs, Cohen · Victorian Studies · 55

World Systems & the Creole

2006 · Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak · Narrative · 55

Science Fiction and the Time Scales of the Anthropocene

2019 · Ursula K. Heise · ELH · 47

Ways of Not Reading Gertrude Stein

2015 · Natalia Cecire · ELH · 44

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Inscriptions as data: digital epigraphy in macro-historical perspective

2021 · Petra Heřmánková, Vojtěch Kaše, et al. · Journal of Digital History · 42

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Mid-Range Reading: Not a Manifesto

2017 · Alison Booth · PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America · 42

The Enormity Effect: Realist Fiction, Literary Studies, and the Refusal to Count

2017 · Caroline Levine · Genre · 42

Works count: 2,141

Citation count: 7,492