Graphs, maps, trees : abstract models for literary history / Franco Moretti.

Main entry:

Moretti, Franco, 1950- author. aut

Title & Author:

Graphs, maps, trees : abstract models for literary history / Franco Moretti.

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2007.

Description:

119 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm

Notes:
"Abstract models for literary history"--P. [1] of cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Graphs, maps, trees --- Graphs --- Maps --- Trees --- Afterword by Alberto Piazza.

Summary:

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. -- Publisher description.

ISBN:

9781844671854 (pbk.)
1844671852 (pbk.)

Subject:

Literature History and criticism.
Literature Philosophy.
Criticism.
Littérature Histoire et critique.
Critique.
Literature.
Strukturmodell
Literaturtheorie
Literaturgeschichte
Literaturgeschichte <Fach>

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Piazza, Alberto, 1941- author of afterword colophon, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282726
Call No.: BIB 220429
Status: Available

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