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Far Country: Scenes from American Culture

Franco Moretti

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

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Some of Moretti's characteristics are here --- he's really big on comparisons between multiple examples of genres, so there's a (brilliant) chapter contrasting Westerns with film noir, but it's definitely a contrast between the genres, rather than between any particular Western and any particular film noir. But I guess not even Moretti wanted to teach intro. lit. to freshmen through distant reading.

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.