Kwantytatywna poetyka rosyjskiego formalizmu… – Boris Jarcho jako niedoceniony prekursor „czytania na dystans”
Quantitative poetics of Russian Formalism: Boris Yarkho as an unacknowledged precursor of “distant reading”

Summary/Abstract: This essay approaches Russian Formalist theory from the perspective of the digital humanities. It focuses on the approaches to quantitative poetics made by several members of the Moscow Linguistic Circle: Boris Tomashevsky, Roman Jakobson, and particularly Boris Yarkho. A special emphasis is made on Yarkho’s invention of what Franco Moretti later referred to as “distant reading” – a comparison of a large number of texts by a limited number of formal features.

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