Citations with the tag: MORETTI, Franco
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- Contributors.
// Victorian Studies; Autumn2011, Vol. 54 Issue 1, p185Information is presented about several scholars who contributed to the writing of the journal, including Franco Moretti, Anna Clark, and Daniel J. Cohen.
- Annexing the unread: a close reading of 'distant reading'.
Khadem, Amir // Neohelicon; Dec2012, Vol. 39 Issue 2, p409In contemporary debates about World literature, Franco Moretti's method of enquiry called 'distant reading' has attracted considerable attention. Many have hailed it as a genuine method, and many have criticized different aspects of it. This essay tries to provide a close analysis of distant...
- The Way of the World (Book).
Khadem, Amir // Forum for Modern Language Studies; Jan2003, Vol. 39 Issue 1, p109Reviews the non-fiction book 'The Way of the World: the 'Bildungsroman' in European Culture,' by Franco Moretti.
- Distant Reading.
Khadem, Amir // Publishers Weekly; 5/6/2013, Vol. 260 Issue 18, p55A review of the book "Distant Reading," by Franco Moretti is presented.
- Gigographies: where popular musicians play.
Laing, Dave // Popular Music History; Aug2009, Vol. 4 Issue 2, p196Using an approach pioneered by the literary scholar Franco Moretti, this article maps popular music performance sites in order to understand the links between performers and their audiences and between music and its geographical, social, economic and cultural environments. Three case studies are...
- The Worlds of The Novel.
Smith, Steven // International Journal of the Classical Tradition; Dec2008, Vol. 15 Issue 4, p635The article reviews several books edited by Franco Moretti including "The Novel: History, Geography, and Culture," vol. 1 and "The Novel: Forms and Themes," vol. 2.
- Here, There, Everywhere.
Donoghue, Denis // New Republic; 01/25/99, Vol. 220 Issue 4, p36Reviews the book "Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900," by Franco Moretti.
- Book reviews.
Matless, David // Progress in Human Geography; Dec99, Vol. 23 Issue 4Reviews the book 'An Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900,' by Franco Moretti.
- Goethe's Heirs.
Steeves, Edna L. // Novel: A Forum on Fiction; Spring1989, Vol. 22 Issue 3, p344Reviews the book "The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture," by Franco Moretti.
- Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary Theory by Franco Moretti (Verso, �20).
Weldhen, Margaret // Use of English; Summer2006, Vol. 57 Issue 3, p254The article reviews the book "Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary Theory," by Franco Moretti.
- AGENCY AND TRANSNATIONAL MEDIATION IN THE WORLD LITERARY SPACE.
ORUC, FIRAT // English Language Notes; Spring/Summer2011, Vol. 49 Issue 1, p51The article discusses modern world literature and transnationalism and local subjectivity in world literature. The author suggests that world literature is a systemic construct and discusses scholar Franco Moretti's center-periphery model of world literature and scholar Pascale Casanova's system...
- SIGNS TAKEN FOR WONDER (Book).
Moore, Mary C. // Humanity & Society; May87, Vol. 11 Issue 2, p265Reviews the book "Signs Taken for Wonder," by Franco Moretti.
- The Novel, Volume I: History, Geography, and Culture; Volume II: Forms and Themes.
Foster, John Burt // Comparatist; May2008, Vol. 32, p193The article reviews two books edited by Franco Moretti which include "The Novel: History, Geography, and Culture," Volume I and "The Novel: Forms and Themes," Volume II.
- World Literature Beyond Hegemony in Yuri M. Lotman's Cultural Semiotics.
Kliger, Ilya // Comparative Critical Studies; 2010, Vol. 7 Issue 2/3, p257The article offers the author's insights on the argument of Yuri M. Lotman on cultural semiotics in the context of world literature beyond cultural hegemony. The author states that Lotman's idea of historical process concerns the classification of cultures and civilization. He adds that Lotman...
- Il romanzo di formazione/ Retorica e immaginario.
Bacigalupo, Massimo // Modern Language Review; Apr1988, Vol. 83 Issue 2, p475Reviews two books on Italian literature. "Il romanzo di formazione," by Franco Moretti; "Retorica e immaginario," by Alessandro Serpieri.
- The Novel's Empirical World.
Price, Leah // Novel: A Forum on Fiction; Fall2007, Vol. 41 Issue 1, p145The article reviews the books "The Novel, Volume I: History, Geography, and Culture" and "The Novel, Volume II: Forms & Theories," both edited by Franco Moretti.
- A Fine Mess.
Evenson, Brian // Novel: A Forum on Fiction; Fall2007, Vol. 41 Issue 1, p149The article reviews the books "The Novel, Volume I: History, Geography, and Culture" and "The Novel, Volume II: Forms & Theories," both edited by Franco Moretti.
- Moretti, Franco. Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History. London & New York: Verso, 2005. 119 pp. £20/$26. ISBN 1–84467–026–0.
Evenson, Brian // Forum for Modern Language Studies; Jul2006, Vol. 42 Issue 3, p322The article reviews the book "Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History," by Franco Moretti.
- Changement de paradigme en histoire litt�raire ?
MATEI, ALEXANDRU // Transylvanian Review; Spring2009, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p15The study discusses several major implications of the book written by Franco Moretti and entitled Graphs. Maps. Trees (2005, 2007), which proposes a series of abstract models ("diagrams") for literary history devised by way of a "distant reading," namely, a Bergsonian-Deleuzian rather than a...
- Notes Towards a Theory of Cyclical Production and Topicality in American Film.
Stanield, Peter // Iluminace; 2012, Vol. 24 Issue 3, p153The article discusses a theory of film cycles, fads and trends based on the notions of literature in history and history of literature which are theorized by the literary historian Franco Moretti. The author used Moretti's ideas to search for commonality of a film with other films, its distinct...
- The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture.
Jeffers, Thomas L. // Clio; Winter89, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p207The article reviews the book "The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture," by Franco Moretti.
- "A sane balance of values": The Cantos as World Literature.
Stasi, Paul // Comparative Literature; Fall2010, Vol. 62 Issue 4, p361The article discusses Ezra Pound's work, Cantos, which emerges as an epic of globalization to represent a world of culture comprised of both Eastern and Western values. According to Franco Moretti's insight, the work of Pound is a relationship of nations and cultures that make themselves felt...
- "The Marks of Sovereignty": The Division of the Kingdom and the Division of the Mind in King Lear.
Munson, Rebecca // Pacific Coast Philology; 2011, Vol. 46, p13The article explores the dual nature of the term "sovereignty" and argues for the interconnections between the mental state of "King Lear," by William Shakespeare and the fragile political situation of the monarchy. It states that during the seventeenth-century England, the term "sovereignty"...
- The Novel.
Beebee, Thomas O. // Comparative Literature Studies; 2008, Vol. 45 Issue 4, p514Reviews two books edited by Franco Moretti. "The Novel. Vol. 1: History, Geography, Culture"; "The Novel. Vol. 2: Forms and Themes."
- The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature.
Beebee, Thomas O. // Publishers Weekly; 5/6/2013, Vol. 260 Issue 18, p55A review of the book "The Bourgeois: Between History & Literature," by Franco Moretti is presented.
- The Novel. History, Geography, and Culture/The Novel. Forms and Themes.
Cooksey, Thomas L. // Library Journal; 8/1/2006, Vol. 131 Issue 13, p87This article reviews the books "The Novel: History, Geography, and Culture" and "The Novel: Forms and Themes," edited by Franco Moretti.
- Quantifying Culture? A Response to Eric Slauter.
Rothberg, Michael // American Literary History; Summer2010, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p341The article discusses cultural history from a quantitative perspective. The article also addresses the essay on this topic by Eric Slauter, "Revolutions in the Meaning and Study of Politics." The author examines Slauter's take on the three developments in the study of early American politics:...
- Invasion of the Head: Gothic Dissent in Dennis Potter's Cold Lazarus.
Scullion, Val // Gothic Studies; May2008, Vol. 10 Issue 1, p4This article uses Franco Moretti's interpretation of Frankenstein and Dracula (Signs Taken For Wonders, 1988) to interrogate Dennis Potter's final television play, Cold Lazarus (1996). The critical approach, following Moretti's example, is generic, Freudian and Marxist. By identifying the...
- 'Transitory Thresholds': Geographic Imaginings of Adolescence in Women's Fiction from North-east Scotland.
Norquay, Glenda // Scottish Literary Review; Autumn/Winter2011, Vol. 3 Issue 2, p81The article discusses the issues of adolescence amongst women in north-east Scotland, as well as its representation of specific Scottish geographies. Such issues were raised by Franco Moretti in his book "Atlas of the European Novel." The adolescent issues on the verge of adulthood and adult...
- Miscellany: Jane Austen and Civility: A Distant Reading.
Mitrić, Ana // Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal; 2007, Issue 29, p194The article emphasizes the importance of manners to novelist Jane Austen as reflected in her works. The author considers Austen's fiction by way of a broad historical context and an approach literary scholar Franco Moretti calls distant reading, where distance, he claims, is a specific form of...
- NILDA DE NICHOLASA MOHR. EL BILDUNGSROMAN Y LA APAARICIÓN DE UN ESPACIO PUERTORRIQUEÑO EN LA LITERATURA DE LOS EEUU.
Sáez, Pilar Bellver // Atlantis (0210-6124); jun2006, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p101In his classic study The Way of the World Franco Moretti argues that the characteristic journey from youth to maturity that the Bildungsroman narrates amounts to a symbolic representation of the integration of the bourgeoisie self into modernity. According to Moretti, this genre becomes obsolete...
- Minds over matter.
Sardar, Ziauddin // New Statesman; 4/17/2006, Vol. 135 Issue 4788, p53The article reviews books in the "Radical Thinkers" series, including volumes by Terry Eagleton, Raymond Williams, Louis Althusser, Franco Moretti and Jacques Derrida.
- Reconstructia fictionala a realitatii.
AXINTE, Serban // Revista Transilvania; 2012, Issue 9, p51The present study starts from the idea that the theoretical discourse of the novel can be basicly defined as a series of critical revisions of one fundamental definition which is undoubtedly correct, yet uneffective, reductive, deprived of any inner contradiction because of its highest degree of...
- A Nobel Sensibility.
Engdahl, Horace // World Policy Journal; Fall2010, Vol. 27 Issue 3, p41The article discusses various aspects of awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature to writers around the world by the Svenska Akademien (Swedish Academy). The author comments on the role of the prize in establishing a literary canon of 20th century writers, the idea of a global literary canon, and...
