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Top 100 Most Cited Books, etc. - nest0r - 2010-02-23
What I see as a certain shift in our perception of 'canon' over the years has me interested in continuing developments in the way people share and search for books using different tools, such as tags and 'cited by', 'related' (as determined by other user behaviours), etc. The kinds of info you see at Amazon or Google.
At any rate, this has resulted in some interesting analyses such as, rather than an editor giving you a list of their must-reads, or propagating the same 'canonized' works from the academies of the 19th-20th centuries, people can look at actual usage/relations on their own with more and more depth and speed.
Anyway, I got to thinking about this again while thinking of what sorts of nonfiction books I might want to start with in 日本語, all other considerations aside. Do you know of ways to create such a list as what I'm about to link to, or of other lists already made?
Examples for English books analyzed by bloggers/companies from dated corpora or more current ones:
Top 100 Most-Frequenty Cited Books in the English Wikipedia
THE FIFTY TWENTIETH-CENTURY WORKS MOST CITED IN THE ARTS & HUMANITIES CITATION INDEX, 1976-1983
The Fifty Most Cited Legal Books (1978-1999)
The Most Cited Books in Post-WWII Anglophone Philosophy
Most cited authors of books in the humanities, 2007
There's also 'key phrases' - http://www.amazon.com/gp/phrase/help/help.html - I think this could be interesting to find collocations or simply interesting turns of phrase to look into, especially common ones within authors' works (I've noticed that those little cliques of subjects/authors that are so fluid often influence one another's 'statistically improbable phrases' [though I think that's not a good term because it implies it's not a common occurrence for these phrases to exist in books]). See also: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?pid=66848#pid66848
Top 100 Most Cited Books, etc. - liosama - 2010-02-23
It will take me at least 500 years to be able to read an equivalent Japanese Edward Said or Noam Chomsky author - or any one of those listed authors. Their shit is hard enough for me in English.