Great writers, along with everything else they are doing, stage a readerly experience and lead their readers through it from first word on first page to last. Mapping out what those paths might look like is as worthy a critical approach as any.
At the Paris Review blog, Damion Searls takes a new approach to defending Syuzhet, Matthew Jockers’s controversial computer program that graphs the shape of a book based on the sentimentality of its words.
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