Far Country by Franco Moretti

Far Country by Franco Moretti

The influential and controversial critic takes literary history out of the classroom and into the public

In 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 undergraduates the history of literature. Knowing Moretti, it's no surprise that he didn't teach the course the accepted way: one author after another, in a long uninterrupted chain. Instead, he put an irregular chessboard in front of his students that was too strange to be taken for granted. Literary history had become a problem, and he offered a solution.

In Far Country, Moretti take these lectures out of the classroom and lets us share in the passion and excitement that comes from radical critique. Unconstrained by genre, Moretti juxtaposes Whitman and Baudelaire, the Western and film noir, even Rembrandt and Warhol, illuminating each through their opposition. With his guidance, we revel in the process of transformation--the earthquakes that shook the how of artistic form--and begin to shape a new view on American culture.

Bracing in its insight and provocative in its conclusions, Far Country is a critical look at the development of American cultural hegemony.

Graphs, Maps, Trees, The Bourgeois, and Distant Reading, winner of the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Prize for Criticism, are among Franco Moretti's many works. More than twenty languages have been used to translate his work. He is a Permanent Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and a professor emeritus at Stanford, where he founded the Center for the Study of the Novel and the Literary Lab. He writes regularly for New Left Review and is a professor emeritus at Stanford.

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ISBN 13	9780374272708
ISBN 10	0374272700
Title	Far Country
Author	Franco Moretti
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year published	2019-03-19
Number of pages	144
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