Network Semantics. A beginning
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Abstract: This article follows two previous attempts at using networks for the understanding of drama, “Network Theory, Plot Analysis” (2011)—also in Franco Moretti, Distant Reading (New York & London: Verso, 2013)—, and “Simulating Dramatic Networks,” Journal of World Literature (2020). Franco Moretti shows here the steps of “visualizing dramatic structure as a network” and critically engages the idea of symmetry in tragedy. In the course of the next two years, the METRA project will continue to investigate the heuristic potential of dramatic networks.
Keywords: tragedy, dramatic networks, network semantics
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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