Graphs, Maps, and Trees

    Moretti takes a data-based and scientific approach to writing literature. While I was reading the Moretti article I realized that although the graphs of each stage of the rise and fall of "THE novel" reiterated the points the author was trying to make, it also took away the power and emotions literature generally constructs. When the author mentioned that the shift from exceptional literature works to mass texts of facts made me think that the author was doing just that with this article. It was a list of facts. The drawbacks of writing this "type" of literature (a string of facts) takes away the point of well written literature. I think literature should capture the audience and intrigue them. This article did the opposite.
    The benefits of this type of literature on the other hand can help leave no room for interpretation and be mostly factual. There would no longer be any mistaken analysis on their work because the reason, goal, and point of their writing is explained thoroughly by statistics and explicitly writing exactly what they meant. This again leaves no interpretation and no confusion by the reader. It is plain black and white. But what's the fun in that? Shouldn't literature be open to interpretation and discussion so that readers may take the lessons, motivation, and goals of the author to their liking? Approaching literature in a more scientific way can be beneficial but leaves out the important factor of interpreting what the author may have wanted you to understand or leave open ended.
    The close analysis of the history of the novel can be repetitive. But a way to change that, for example with Super Sad True Love Story, is that we can take Gary's interpretation of how the future will play out and make interpretations of our own using the examples of events happening within SSTLS and realize that they are some what happening now. For instance, we can make a historical timeline of events that may have happened in our present day or may have come close to happening. We can relate these events to what Gary wants us to remember from his novel and what warnings that he is implying. A historical timeline would have to entail a list of dates and statistics, just like Moretti has done in his article but we can add interpretations to these events to make the analysis different that what Moretti has done in his.