Signs taken for wonders : on the sociology of literary forms

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Title:

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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Summary

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 and psycho-analytic modes of enquity 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.