Network Semantics. A beginning

In: Transilvania

Abstract

This article follows two previous attempts at using networks for the understanding of drama, "Network Theory, Plot Analysis" (2011)—also in Franco Moretti, Distant Reading (New York & London: Verso, 2013)—, and "Simulating Dramatic Networks," Journal of World Literature (2020). Franco Moretti shows here the steps of "visualizing dramatic structure as a network" and critically engages the idea of symmetry in tragedy. In the course of the next two years, the METRA project will continue to investigate the heuristic potential of dramatic networks.