In the article “Graphs, Maps, Trees” by Franco Moretti, Moretti takes an unconventional outlook on literature. Within the article, literature was viewed with scientific and analytical approach, such that literary history was portrayed with graphs and scientific data. The scientific approach of examining literature brings innovative ideas. After all, graphs are hardly used to describe literary history and genres. The graphs within the articles convey the fluctuations in novel sells, publications, and genres. The analyzing of literature through the graphical approach is innovative; however, there are both benefits and draw backs to innovative ideas. Within this essay, the benefits and draw backs will be examined as well as the possibility of various literary projects with various fields.
The benefits of the graphical approach to literature would be the clear and precise information and data that is provided in regards to the literary trends and historical fluctuations. Also the graphical approach helps people visualize and understand the history of literature clearer by showing the trends through the graphs. However, the draw back from the graphical approach to literature would be that it takes away the significance of literature, and written words because literature became something that is portrayed and expressed through statistics and numbers instead of words with meanings. The graphs take away the significance of the written words and the meanings and thoughts that the words are trying to convey.
As mentioned before, other interdisciplinary projects that could combine with literature would be biological and physical sciences. What could be proposed as projects would be the combination of literature and biological and physical sciences by utilizing the written word to convey the information and data that is necessary as information for the sciences.
As a result of the innovative approach to literature that is shown in the article by Moretti, another way to approach SSTLS that is other than close reading analysis would be through visual analysis such as watching or acting out scenes from the book.
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