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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Verso Books
Publication date
July 21, 2005
Pages
119
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781844670260
ISBN-10
1844670260
Dimensions
0.75 by 6.50 by 8.75 in.
Weight
0.76 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$26.00
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Professor 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 luster to a tired field, one that in some respects is among âthe most backwards disciplines in the academy.â 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 âdistant reading,â set forth in his path-breaking essay âConjectures on World Literature,â into a full-blown experiment in literary historiography, where the canon disappears into the larger literary system. Charting entire genresâthe epistolary, the gothic, and the historical novelâas 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.
Moretti offers bar charts, maps, and time lines instead, developing the idea of âdistant reading,â set forth in his path-breaking essay âConjectures on World Literature,â into a full-blown experiment in literary historiography, where the canon disappears into the larger literary system. Charting entire genresâthe epistolary, the gothic, and the historical novelâas 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.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Verso Books (July 21, 2005)
9781844670260 | details & prices | 119 pages | 6.50 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.76 lbs | List price $26.00
About: Professor Franco Moretti argues heretically that literature scholars should stop reading books and start counting, graphing, and mapping them instead.
About: Professor Franco Moretti argues heretically that literature scholars should stop reading books and start counting, graphing, and mapping them instead.
Paperback
from Verso Books (September 30, 2007)
9781844671854 | details & prices | 119 pages | 5.25 × 8.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.36 lbs | List price $19.99
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