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Franco Moretti
Moretti builds a theory of the modern epic, encompassing literary culture from Faust to One Hundred Years of Solitude, and investigates the role of these texts.
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Pioneering literary theorist takes cultural history out of the classroom and into the world.
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Barcellona e New York due citta, Michele e Victoria un uomo e una donna, lontani tra loro ma con alle spalle un passato che li unisce e che li accomuna…
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A work of aesthetic investigation.
For the past seven years, the Stanford Literary Lab, founded by Franco Moretti and Matthew Jockers, has been a leading site of literary scholarship aided by computers and algorithmic methods…
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A compelling analysis of the relations between high and mass culture, from tragedy and horror to detective fiction and classical realism.
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A translated selection from the epic five-volume Italian Il Romanzo (2001-2003), this title views the novel primarily from the inside, examining its many formal arrangements and recurrent thematic manifestations, and…
By viewing the novel as much more than an aesthetic form, this volume demonstrates how the genre has transformed human emotions and behavior, and the very perception of reality. It…
The formation of an unorthodox literary critic
Who - and what - are the Bourgeois?
The present volume collects generalist, specialist, academic, and nonacademic responses by statisticians, philosophers, historians, literary scholars, and others–as well as Moretti’s comments about the responses to his work Graphs, Maps…
Charting entire genres - the epistolary, the gothic, and the historical novel - as well as the literary output of countries such as Japan, Italy, Spain, and Nigeria, this work…
A combination of narrative theory and social history, this new edition includes an additional final chapter on the collapse of the Bildungsroman in the years around World War I (a…
Federico Roberto
A classic of Sicilian Literature, first published in 1894
