Description: The 'great iconoclast of literary criticism' ("Guardian") reinvents the study of the novel. Franco Moretti argues heretically that literature scholars should stop reading books and start counting, graphing, and mapping them instead. He insists that such a move could bring new lustre to a tired field, one that in some respects is among "the most backwards disciplines in the academy." Literary study, he argues, has been random and unsystematic. For any given period, scholars focus on a select group of a mere few hundred texts: the canon. As a result, they have allowed a narrow distorting slice of history to pass for the total picture. Moretti offers bar charts, maps, and time lines instead, developing the idea of "distant reading" into a full-blown experiment in literary historiography, where 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.
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EAN: 9781844671854
UPC: 9781844671854
ISBN: 9781844671854
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Book Title: Graphs, Maps, Trees : Abstract Models for Literary History
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication Year: 2007
Topic: Comparative Literature, Sociology / General, General, Semiotics & Theory
Item Height: 0.4 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Social Science
Item Weight: 5.9 Oz
Author: Franco Moretti
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Perfect
