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Modern Epic: The World-System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez

by Franco Moretti

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Book News Annotation:

Moretti (English and comparative literature, Columbia U.) creates an entirely new critical category for literature that has eluded modern classification, coining such work as Moby Dick and Ulysses as "modern epic." According to his theory, these novels along with The Nibelung's Ring, Faust, The Cantos, The Wasteland and One Hundred Years of Solitude constitute a "super-genre" representing European domination, political ambition, and sense of a world system in much the same way as the Greeks denoted the intricacies of their world in the epic. The aesthetic difference in these novels is apparent, however, by their use of collage and stream of consciousness which the author duly explicates within his reviews.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781859840696
Subtitle:
The World-System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez
Translator:
Hoare, Quintin
Author:
Moretti, Franco
Author:
Hoare, Quintin
Publisher:
Verso
Location:
London ;
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Literature
Subject:
History & Criticism *
Subject:
History and criticism
Subject:
Epic literature
Subject:
Faust, d. 1540
Subject:
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Volume:
no. A-693
Publication Date:
March 1996
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
272
Dimensions:
9.28x6.16x.59 in. .83 lbs.
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