Anna Muenchrath
Biographic Data
| ID | 5702202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Muenchrath |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Muenchrath |
| SIGNATURE | MUENCHRATH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3712-9660 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Signal in the Noise
In literary sociology, texts have often been treated as a product of human history, and therefore as symptoms of the forces that have shaped them. This essay considers a single strain of computational literary studies that uses predictive modeling to locate differences between two corpora of texts, determining, for example, what makes a text literary, reviewable, or prize-worthy. This type of computational literary studies is sociological in natu…
In Accord with the Spirit of American Democracy”
This essay explores the possibilities of thinking about the production, circulation, and reception of books through the form of the network. Using archival material of the Council of Books in Wartime, the essay reassembles some of the many attachments that formed the Armed Services Editions during World War II, one of the largest enterprises in the history of publishing. The essay traces the selections of the council, the networks of soldier-read…
Making and Reading World Literature in a Pandemic
This essay intervenes in a debate about world literature that pits commodity circulation against normativity and literature’s causal force. By taking into account the history of book production and circulation as intimately linked with the history of global capitalism, this essay reads Severance (2018) by Ling Ma as a critique of the logic of global logistics and its labor relations. Reading the novel during a pandemic ironically draws attention …
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Making and Reading World Literature in a Pandemic
This essay intervenes in a debate about world literature that pits commodity circulation against normativity and literature’s causal force. By taking into account the history of book production and circulation as intimately linked with the history of global capitalism, this essay reads Severance (2018) by Ling Ma as a critique of the logic of global logistics and its labor relations. Reading the novel during a pandemic ironically draws attention …
In Accord with the Spirit of American Democracy”
This essay explores the possibilities of thinking about the production, circulation, and reception of books through the form of the network. Using archival material of the Council of Books in Wartime, the essay reassembles some of the many attachments that formed the Armed Services Editions during World War II, one of the largest enterprises in the history of publishing. The essay traces the selections of the council, the networks of soldier-read…
The Signal in the Noise
In literary sociology, texts have often been treated as a product of human history, and therefore as symptoms of the forces that have shaped them. This essay considers a single strain of computational literary studies that uses predictive modeling to locate differences between two corpora of texts, determining, for example, what makes a text literary, reviewable, or prize-worthy. This type of computational literary studies is sociological in natu…
Sociology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Agency (philosophy) (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Bureaucracy (1 works)