Quantitative Criticism

定量批评研究是指在文学研究中采用计数和测量的方法，以及数学，统计，经验和计算机为基础的方法来分析和解释文学文本的方法。迄今为止，还没有一个全面系统的、历时性的研究来考察和记录德国文学研究中数量方法的历史发展。这是令人惊讶的，因为自世纪初以来，定量方法一直被用于文学研究，并且是当前数字人文背景下辩论的核心兴趣。本项目的目的是1）重建（德国）文学研究中定量方法的历史发展，2）根据定量方法所应用的问题，对定量方法进行分类和系统化; 3）将定量方法置于方法的历史发展中，学科和理论在德国文学研究和其他语言的文学研究。该项目将开始的历史概述，并仔细研究三个时期，在此期间，定量方法蓬勃发展：1900年前后，1950年前后到1980年前后，以及2000年以来的最新发展。这一概述将为调查的主要部分奠定基础，调查将以下列问题为指导：在什么时候对哪些问题应用了定量方法？在什么情况下有利于或阻碍数量方法的应用？虽然该项目的重点将是德国文学研究，但将与其他语言的文学研究建立联系。这种比较方法将确保该项目的结果建立在有充分依据的历史和方法论基础上，它将提供与其他语言学的联系，并有助于阐明数字人文学科的理论和历史背景。

Quantitative Criticism studies refers to an approach in literary studies that employs methods of counting and measuring, as well as mathematical, statistical, empirical and computer-based methods in the analysis and interpretation of literary texts. So far, there has been no comprehensive systematic and diachronic research that investigates and documents the historical development of quantitative methods in German literary studies. This is surprising, given that quantitative methods have been employed in literary studies since the beginning of the nineteenth century and are of central interest to current debates in the context of the digital humanities.The aim of this project is 1) to reconstruct the historical development of quantitative methods in (German) literary studies, 2) to categorise and systematise quantitative methods in view of the respective problems and questions to which they have been applied, and 3) to locate them within the historical development of methods, disciplines and theories in German literature studies and literature studies of other languages.The project will begin with a historical overview and a closer look at three periods, during which quantitative methods flourished: the years around 1900, the period reaching from about 1950 to about 1980, and the recent development since the year 2000. This overview will set the stage for the main part of the investigation which will be guided by the following questions: Which problems were quantitative methods applied to at which times? What where the circumstances that favoured or hindered the application of quantitative methods? While the focus of the project will be on German literary studies, connections will be drawn to literary studies of other languages. This comparative approach will ensure that the results of the project rest on a well-founded historical and methodological basis, it will provide links to other philologies, and it will help to illuminate the theoretical and historical background of the digital humanities.