Signs Taken for Wonders by Franco Moretti
Shakespearean tragedy and Dracula, Sherlock Holmes and Ulysses, Frankenstein 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 skilfully on structuralist, sociological and psycho-analytic modes of enquiry in order to read these texts as literary systems which are tokens of wider cultural and political realities. In the process, Moretti offers us compelling accounts of various literary genres, explores the relationships between high and mass culture in this century, and considers the relevance of tragic, Romantic and Darwinian views of the world.
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781859841716 |
| ISBN 10 | 1859841716 |
| Title | Signs Taken for Wonders |
| Author | Franco Moretti |
| Series | Verso Classics |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 1997-04-17 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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