| #202976 in Books | Moretti, Franco | 2007-09-17 | 2007-09-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.26 x.42 x5.45l,.34 | File type: PDF | 119 pages||6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| If you're into sociology of literature, read this book|By Stanisław Krawczyk|While this book is too short to launch a revolution in itself, it gives a provoking insight into Franco Moretti's challenges to traditional literary history. I have also found the book to be an important input into the sociology of literature, and I'd recommend reading "Graphs, Maps, Trees" to anyone||“It’s a rare literary critic who attracts so much public attention, and there’s a good reason: few are as hell-bent on rethinking the way we talk about literature.”—Times Literary Supplement||“The great iconoclast of
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 “distant reading” into a full-blown experiment in literary historiography, in which the canon disappears into the larger literary system. Charting entire genre...
You easily download any file type for your device.Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History | Franco Moretti. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
