The aim of this book is to unite computer-aided lectures of literary texts with lectures that follow the philological-historical tradition: Both methods should be complementary. According to this aim, the analysis of the five-volume pastoral novel entitled L'Astrée (1607-1627) by Honoré d'Urfé will combine close and distant reading and employ the method of the so-called topic modeling. This book does not focus on quantitative results, but instead on researches in the field of literary interpretation.

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Krüger lehrte als Ordinarius für Romanische Literaturen an der Universität Stuttgart. Er vertritt die gesamte französische Literatur sowie einzelne Abteilungen der anderen Romania.