Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History

Moretti, Franco

ISBN 10: 1844671852 / ISBN 13: 9781844671854

Edité par Verso, 2007

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Titre : Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for ...

Éditeur : Verso

Date d'édition : 2007

Reliure : Paperback

Etat : Good

Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket

Edition : 2ème Édition

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Unusual book

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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.