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Graphs, maps, trees: abstract models for a literary history

By Franco Moretti

Book information

Publisher
Verso
Year
2007
ISBN
9781844671854, 9781844670260, 9781789603309
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19461124 bytes)
Pages
119\128
Library
Fulcrum
Time added
2023-06-13 17:19:35

Description

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.

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