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  | | The Bourgeois(Reprint) Between History and Literature by Franco Moretti Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2014 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78168-304-0, ISBN: 1-78168-304-2 ""The bourgeois ...Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentioned. Capitalism is more powerful than ever, but its human embodiment seems to have vanished. 'I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, and have been brought up on its opinions and ideals, ' wrote Max Weber, in 1895. Who could repeat these words today? Bourgeois 'opinions and ..." |
 | | Distant Reading(1st Edition) by Franco Moretti, Franco Etti Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2013 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78168-084-1, ISBN: 1-78168-084-1 "WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The essays in "Distant Reading" led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis. In presenting them here Franco Moretti reconstructs his intellectual trajectory, the theoretical influences over his work, and explores the polemics that have often dev ..." |
 | | The Way of the World(Updated) The Bildungsroman in European Culture, New Edition by Franco Moretti, Albert Sbragia Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2000 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-298-0, ISBN: 1-85984-298-4 "Willhelm Meister, Elizabeth Bennet, Julian Sorel, Rastignac, Jane Eyre, Bazaroz, Dorothea Brooke...the Golden Age of the European novel discovers a new collective protagonist: youth. It is problematic and restless youth - 'strange' characters, as their own creators often say - arising from the downfall of traditional societies. But even more than that, youth is the symbolic figure for European modernity: that sudden mix of great expecta ..." |
 | | Canon/Archive(1st Edition) Studies in Quantitative Formalism by Franco Moretti, Matthew Jockers, Holst Katsma, Long Le-Khac, Dominique Pestre, Erik Steiner, Amir Tevel, Hannah Walser, Michael Witmore, Irena Yamboliev, Mark Algee-Hewitt, Sarah Allison, Marissa Gemma, Ryan Heuser Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2017 by N+1 Foundation ISBN-13: 978-0-9970318-7-4, ISBN: 0-9970318-7-5 "For the past seven years, the Stanford Literary Lab, founded by Franco Moretti and Matthew Jockers, has been a leading site of literary scholarship aided by computers and algorithmic methods. This landmark volume gathers the collective research of the group and its most remarkable experiments. From seemingly ineffable matters such as the loudness of thousands of novels, the geographic distribution of emotions, the nature of a sentence a ..." |
 | | Far Country(1st Edition) Scenes from American Culture by Franco Moretti Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2019 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-27270-8, ISBN: 0-374-27270-0 "The influential and controversial critic takes literary history out of the classroom and into the publicIn the field of literary history and theory, Franco Moretti is synonymous with innovation. The cofounder of the Stanford Literary Lab, he brought quantitative methods into the study of the novel, enabling a “distant” reading that uses computation to analyze literary production over centuries. But at the same time, he was also teaching ..." |
 | | Graphs, Maps, Trees Abstract Models for Literary History by Franco Moretti, Alberto Piazza Paperback, 119 Pages, Published 2007 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-185-4, ISBN: 1-84467-185-2 "The 'great iconoclast of literary criticism' reinvents the study of the novel. 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 âdistant readingâ into a full-blown experiment in ..." |
 | | The Novel, Volume 2(1st Edition) Forms and Themes by Franco Moretti, Princeton University Press Paperback, 960 Pages, Published 2007 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-13473-4, ISBN: 0-691-13473-1 "Nearly as global in its ambition and sweep as its subject, Franco Moretti's The Novel is a watershed event in the understanding of the first truly planetary literary form. A translated selection from the epic five-volume Italian Il Romanzo (2001-2003), The Novel's two volumes are a unified multiauthored reference work, containing more than one hundred specially commissioned essays by leading contemporary critics from around the world. P ..." |
 | | Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900(Updated) by Franco Moretti Paperback, 206 Pages, Published 1999 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-224-9, ISBN: 1-85984-224-0 "Which is after all not 22 Similar reflections in a recent study by Loi'c Ravenel: ' Within Holmes' world, the countryside is first and foremost a space which is attached to the city. [. . .] The physical connection is established by the railway, and by a network of urban and rural tram stations. [. . .] The rapidity of the means of communication situates the universe of the countryside in the proximity of the city. Characters can re ..." |
 | | Far Country Scenes from American Culture (Paperback) by Franco Moretti Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2020 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-250-25113-8, ISBN: 1-250-25113-3 "The cofounder of the Stanford Literary Lab, he brought quantitative methods into the study of the novel, enabling a “distant” reading that uses computation to analyze literary production over centuries." |
 | | Modern Epic The World System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez by Franco Moretti, Quintin Hoare Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1996 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-069-6, ISBN: 1-85984-069-8 ""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 how to classify and treat these aesthetic monum ..." |
 | | The Novel, Volume 1(1st Edition) History, Geography, and Culture by Franco Moretti Paperback, 928 Pages, Published 2007 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12718-7, ISBN: 0-691-12718-2 " Nearly as global in its ambition and sweep as its subject, Franco Moretti's The Novel is a watershed event in the understanding of the first truly planetary literary form. A translated selection from the epic five-volume Italian Il Romanzo (2001-2003), The Novel's two volumes are a unified multiauthored reference work, containing more than one hundred specially commissioned essays by leading contemporary critics from around the worl ..." |
 | | The Bourgeois(1st Edition) Between History and Literature by Franco Moretti Hardcover, 228 Pages, Published 2013 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78168-085-8, ISBN: 1-78168-085-X "Who – and what – are the Bourgeois?“The bourgeois ... Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentioned. Capitalism is more powerful than ever, but its human embodiment seems to have vanished. ‘I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, and have been brought up on its opinions and ideals,’ wrote Max Weber, in 1895. Who could repeat these w ..." |
 | | Signs Taken for Wonders(Updated) On the Sociology of Literary Forms (Radical Thinkers) by Franco Moretti Paperback, 273 Pages, Published 2006 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-056-7, ISBN: 1-84467-056-2 "Shakespearean tragedy and Dracula, Sherlock Holmes and Ulysses, Frankenstei and The Waste Land—all are celebrated “wonders” of modern literature, whether in its mandarin or popular form. However, it is the fact that these texts are so central to our contemporary notion of literature that sometimes hinders our ability to understand them. Franco Moretti applies himself to this problem by drawing skillfully on structuralist, sociological a ..." |
 | | SIGNS TAKEN FOR WONDERS ESSAYS IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF LITERARY FORMS by Franco Moretti Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1988 by Verso Books ISBN-13: 978-0-86091-764-9, ISBN: 0-86091-764-9 "Seminal semiotics." |
 | | Signs Taken for Wonders(2nd Edition) by Franco Moretti, D. Miller, David Forgacs, David Miller, S. Fischer Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1988 by Verso Books ISBN-13: 978-0-86091-210-1, ISBN: 0-86091-210-8 |
 | | Far Country by Franco Moretti Published 2019 by Verso Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-724-1, ISBN: 1-78873-724-5 |
 | | Graphs, Maps, Trees(2nd Edition) Abstract Models for a Literary History by Franco Moretti, Alberto Piazza Hardcover, 119 Pages, Published 2005 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-026-0, ISBN: 1-84467-026-0 "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 “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 ..." |
 | | An Atlas of the European Novel, 1800-1900(1st Edition) by Franco Moretti Hardcover, 218 Pages, Published 1998 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-883-8, ISBN: 1-85984-883-4 "As New, . 6.4"x8.9"x0.9"; 1.4 lb; 206 pages. A groundbreaking study in literary geography. An Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 explores the fascinating connections between literature and space. In this pioneering study, Franco Moretti presents a fresh and exciting perspective en the European novel. In a series of one hundred maps, Moretti illuminates the geographical assumptions of nineteenth-century novels and the geographical rea ..." |
 | | The Novel, Volume 2 Forms and Themes by Franco Moretti Hardcover, 960 Pages, Published 2006 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-04948-9, ISBN: 0-691-04948-3 " Nearly as global in its ambition and sweep as its subject, Franco Moretti's The Novel is a watershed event in the understanding of the first truly planetary literary form. A translated selection from the epic five-volume Italian Il Romanzo (2001-2003), The Novel's two volumes are a unified multiauthored reference work, containing more than one hundred specially commissioned essays by leading contemporary critics from around the world ..." |
 | | n+1 Number Thirteen Machine Politics by N. 1., Christopher Glazek, Benjamin Kunkel, James Franco, Deenah Volmer, Kirill Medvedev, Astra Taylor, David Auerbach, Elizabeth Gumport, Alice Gregory, Franco Moretti, Sarah Allison, Ryan Heuser, Matthew Jockers, Michael Witmore Paperback, 205 Pages, Published 2012 by N+1 Foundation ISBN-13: 978-0-9825977-5-0, ISBN: 0-9825977-5-4 "Do Not Disturb the Intellectual Situation: it's Occupied. James Franco prepares, Sotheby's sells out. Are computers stupid? Chris Glazek: Raze the prisons. Benjamin Kunkel: Buzz." |
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