Critica digitale e analisi quantitativa della letteratura, “Semicerchio”, 53 (2015/2)

The Mechanic Reader. 
Digital Methods for Literary Criticism.
Proceedings of the Siena Conference, 12-13 June 2015:
http://tdtc.bytenet.it/centroideugsu/centrostudi_pag.asp?id=482
Edited by Francesco Stella & Fabio Ciotti

The Mechanic Reader. Instead of a Preface
di Francesco Stella 3

I. On Moretti’s Distant Reading
Sul distant reading: una visione critica
di Fabio Ciotti 12
A Distant Episteme. New Conditions of Knowledge in Franco Moretti’s Distant Reading (2013)
di Alberto Comparini 20
Distant reading: some musings between world literature and digital humanities

II. A Status of Research. Recent updates
Computational Models (of Narrative) for Literary Studies
di Antonio Lieto 36
LiteraMorphosis. Digital Technologies and the Transformation of Literary Culture
di Lucia Esposito, Emanuela Piga, Alessandra Ruggiero 43
New Literary Hybrids in the Age of Multimedia Expression. Reflections on a Thematic Project Sponsored by the Coordinating Committee of ICLA
di Marcel Cornis-Pope 48

III. Chronological applications
Archivi elettronici di poesia latina e opzioni multiple di ricerca intertestuale
di Paolo Mastandrea 56
Computational methods of literary criticism: an example of use in Marco Polo’s Devisement du monde
di Dominique Lapierre, Jamie Tehrani 66
Measuring the average population densities of plays. A case study of Andreas Gryphius, Christian Weise and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
di Katrin Dennerlein 78
Manzoni’s Electronic Interpretations
di Claudia Bonsi, Angelo Di Iorio, Paola Italia e Fabio Vitali 87
Giacomo Leopardi’s Zibaldone as a digital research platform: a methodological proposal for its semantic reconstruction and discursive mediation
di Silvia Stoyanova 96
I Sistemi Artificiali Adattivi e l’opera di Fernando Pessoa: possibili applicazioni a fini ecdotici e critici
di Simone Celani 105
Biofiction, Documentality and the Internet: metamorphoses of a Literary Genre
di Riccardo Castellana 113