Signs taken for wonders : on the sociology of literary forms
by
 
Moretti, Franco, 1950-

Title
: 
Signs taken for wonders : on the sociology of literary forms

Author
: 
Moretti, Franco, 1950-

ISBN
: 
9781844670567

Personal Author
: 
Moretti, Franco, 1950-

Uniform Title
: 
Segni e stili del moderno. English

Publication Information
: 
London ; New York : Verso, 2005.

Physical Description
: 
273 p. ; 20 cm.

Series
: 
Radical thinkers
 
Radical thinkers ; 7

Series Title
: 
Radical thinkers

General Note
: 
Translated from the Italian 'Segni e stili del moderno'.
 
First published by Verso, 1983.

Contents
: 
The soul and the harpy : reflections on the aims and methods of literary historiography -- The great eclipse : tragic form as the deconsecration of sovereignity -- Dialectic of fear -- Homo palpitans : Balzac's novels and urban personality -- Clues -- Kindergarten -- The long goodbye : Ulysses and the end of liberal capitalism -- From The waste land to the artificial paradise.

Subject Term
: 
Literature and society.
 
English literature -- History and criticism.
 
Literary form.


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