Nearly as global in its ambition and sweep as its subject, Franco Moretti's The Novel is a watershed event in the understanding of the first truly planetary literary form. A translated selection from the epic five-volume Italian Il Romanzo (2001-2003), The Novel's two volumes are a unified multiauthored reference work, containing more than one hundred specially commissioned essays by leading contemporary critics from around the world. Providing the first international comparative reassessment of the novel, these essential volumes reveal the form in unprecedented depth...
Nearly as global in its ambition and sweep as its subject, Franco Moretti's The Novel is a watershed event in the understanding of the first...
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis. In presenting them here Franco Moretti reconstructs his intellectual trajectory, the theoretical influences over his work, and explores the polemics that have often developed around his positions. From the evolutionary model of "Modern European Literature," through the geo-cultural insights of...
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component a...
Shakespearean tragedy and "Dracula," Sherlock Holmes and "Ulysses," "Frankenstei "and "The Waste Land" all are celebrated wonders of modern literature, whether in its mandarin or popular form. However, it is the fact that these texts are so central to our contemporary notion of literature that sometimes hinders our ability to understand them. Franco Moretti applies himself to this problem by" "drawing skillfully on structuralist, sociological and psycho-analytic modes of enquity in order to read these texts as literary systems which are tokens of wider cultural and political realities. In the...
Shakespearean tragedy and "Dracula," Sherlock Holmes and "Ulysses," "Frankenstei "and "The Waste Land" all are celebrated wonders of modern literature...
In this pioneering study Franco Moretti presents a fresh and exciting perspective by mapping the often unexpected relations between literature and geography.
In this pioneering study Franco Moretti presents a fresh and exciting perspective by mapping the often unexpected relations between literature and geo...
Tato kniha si klade za cíl přiblížit literární historii ostatním humanitním vědám pomocí nástrojů vyvinutých původně pro jiné oblasti výzkumu: kvantitativních grafů, zeměpisných map a vývojových stromů evoluční biologie. Názorným příkladem je nová interpretace vývoje moderní prózy v první kapitole: teprve při zkoumání nejen několika málo kanonických textů, jak bývá zvykem, ale samotného systému románových žánrů jako celku, vystoupí na povrch existence „literárních cyklů“, na jejichž základě lze stanovit novou periodizaci...
Tato kniha si klade za cíl přiblížit literární historii ostatním humanitním vědám pomocí nástrojů vyvinutých původně pro jiné oblasti...
