Measuring Tragedy—and Drawing Its Borders
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Abstract: The present article introduces the METRA project, a project within which 22 researchers coordinated by Professor Franco Moretti will analyze the tragic form across 12 European cultures, making use of literary geography, comparative poetics, and a broad array of computational tools. This special issue of Transilvania represents a preliminary foray into the project’s topic, meant to present METRA’s methodology and discuss the generic, chronological, and geographic delimitations of tragic form.
Keywords: tragedy, the tragic, European literatures, network semantics, definition
Acknowledgement: This work was funded by the EU’s NextGenerationEU instrument through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan of Romania – Pillar III-C9-I8, managed by the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalization, within the project entitled Measuring Tragedy: Geographical Diffusion, Comparative Morphology, and Computational Analysis of European Tragic Form (METRA), contract no. 760249/28.12.2023, code CF 163/31.07.2023.
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