"To use new technology to look at literature as a whole, which has never really been done before,..."

“To use new technology to look at literature as a whole, which has never really been done before, rather than focusing on complex and singular works, is a good direction for cultural criticism to move in. Paradoxically, it may even liberate the canonical works to be read more in the spirit in which they were written.” - Jonathan Franzen on Digital Humanities in Big data meets the Bard - FT.com. h/t @brettbobley.