One of the central principles of distant reading is that literary history and literary criticism can be written without necessarily resorting to the kind of careful, sustained reading encounter with individual texts that is fundamental to close reading. Commonly, distant reading is performed at scale, using a large collection of texts. [...] Empirical approaches to literary study are a regular characteristic of distant reading, and are often accompanied by a reliance on quantitative methods » (WIKIPEDIA, « Distant reading, consulté le 30 septembre 2020).