Measuring Tragedy – and Drawing Its Borders Cover Image

Megmérni és körülhatárolni a tragédiát
Measuring Tragedy – and Drawing Its Borders

Author(s): Franco Moretti, Andrei Terian
Contributor(s): Imre József Balázs (Translator)
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Korunk Baráti Társaság
Keywords: tragedy; the tragic; European literatures; network semantics; definition

Summary/Abstract: The article introduces the METRA project (Measuring Tragedy: Geographical Diffusion, Comparative Morphology, and Computational Analysis of European Tragic Form) of Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, a project within which 22 researchers coordinated by Professor Franco Moretti analyze the tragic form across 12 European cultures, making use of literary geography, comparative poetics, and a broad array of computational tools. The authors present the methodology and discuss the generic, chronological, and geographic delimitations of tragic form.

  • Issue Year: 2025
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 6-8
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: Hungarian
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