Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History - Couverture souple

Moretti, Franco

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ISBN 10 : 1844671852 ISBN 13 : 9781844671854

Editeur : Verso Books, 2007

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In this groundbreaking book, Franco Moretti argues that literature scholars should stop reading books and start counting, graphing, and mapping them instead. In place of the traditionally selective literary canon of a few hundred texts, Moretti offers charts, maps and time lines, developing the idea of “distant reading” into a full-blown experiment in literary historiography, in which the canon disappears into the larger literary system. 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, he shows how literary history looks significantly different from what is commonly supposed and how the concept of aesthetic form can be radically redefined.

Revue de presse

“It’s a rare literary critic who attracts so much public attention, and there’s a good reason: few are as hell-bent on rethinking the way we talk about literature.”—Times Literary Supplement

“The great iconoclast of literary criticism ... Moretti’s discourse, as has often been noted, is marked by the same subtlety and unpredictability as his fellow Italian, Umberto Eco.”—Guardian

“Mr. Moretti makes his most forceful case yet for his approach, a heretical blend of quantitative history, geography and evolutionary theory.”—New York Times

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1844671852
• ISBN 13: 9781844671854
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 128