‘Could be the translation, of course’. Analysing the perception of literary fiction and literary translations

AbstractThe advent of information technology has greatly expanded the methodological toolkit of literary scholars. In the digital humanities project The Riddle of Literary Quality, methods from literary studies, linguistics and computer science are combined with sociological approaches. I will describe how this project went about mixing and blending methods from different research disciplines in search of more knowledge about the modern-day Dutch and European literary systems.