Modern Epic: The World System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Franco Moretti, Quintin Hoare (Translator)Publish date:1996-04-17Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781859840696ISBN-10:1859840698UPC:9781859840696Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Comparative Literature, European, SociologySize:9.28 x 6.16 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SCTDTP7C4H
Modern Epic: The World System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez
"Take Faust, what is it? A 'tragedy', as its author states? A great philosophical tale? A collection of lyrical insights? Who can say. How about Moby-Dick? Encyclopedia, novel or romance? Or even a 'singular medley, ' as one anonymous 1851 review put it? ... 'It is no longer a novel, ' T.S. Eliot said of Ulysses. But if not novels, then what are they?" Literary history has long been puzzled by...
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781859840696ISBN-10:1859840698UPC:9781859840696Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Comparative Literature, European, SociologySize:9.28 x 6.16 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SCTDTP7C4H
Franco Moretti teaches English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of Signs Taken for Wonders, The Way of the World and Modern Epic, all from Verso. Quintin Hoare is the director of the Bosnian Institute and has translated numerous works by Sartre, Antonio Gramsci, and other French authors. He lives in the United Kingdom.
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