Experimental Criticism

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Franco Moretti and Literature

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Av Franco Moretti, Francesco de Cristofaro, Stefano Ercolino, Francesco de Cristofaro, Francesco De Cristofaro

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Experimental Criticism offers a series of close critical engagements with one of the world's most innovative literary thinkers. Franco Moretti, author of such major works as Signs Taken for Wonders, The Way of the World, Modern Epic, Atlas of the European Novel and The Bourgeois, may be best known for his 'distant reading' of vast numbers of literary texts at the Stanford Literary Lab. Francesco de Cristofaro and Stefano Ercolino lead a lively exploration of his work as a springboard for rethinking the fundamentals of literary studies.Topics include literary theory and method, problems of scale and canonisation, the evolution of literary forms, abstract modelling and the digital humanities, comparative versus world literature, Marxism and literary history, and tragedy and the novel. There are essays from Moretti himself on Lukács and the tensions between close and distant reading, plus a 'provisional epilogue' in which he reflects on his intellectual itinerary and the challenges posed by contributors to this volume. 'Why study literature?' he asks. For the pleasure of reducing complex things to their simple elements; to bring them back to earth.This key retrospective amounts to a critical manifesto for an experimental literary materialism, one unafraid to test radical new hypotheses.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-01-27
Mått140 x 210 x undefined mm
Vikt350 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagVerso Books
ISBN9781804295076
ÖversättareBraude, Richard

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Francesco de Cristofaro teaches comparative literature at the University of Naples Federico II. He is the author of Zoo di romanzi (Zoo of Novels), Letterature comparate (Comparative Literature) and La palla al balzo (Leaping at the Chance).Stefano Ercolino teaches literary theory and comparative literature at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. His books include The Maximalist Novel, The Novel-Essay and, with Massimo Fusillo, Negative Empathy in Literature and the Arts.

Criticism as Experiment Francesco de Cristofaro and Stefano ErcolinoI Towards an Intellectual History1. Unrestrained IndividuationStefano Ercolino2. Discourse on Method Francesco de Cristoforo 3. The New Anatomy TableGiuseppe Episcopo II Experimental Criticism4. Essayism: Franco Moretti Guido Mazzoni5. Morphology in America: Evolutionary Theory as an Experiment in Radical SociologyAndrea Miconi6. Towards a More Rational Literary History Patricia McManus7. Franco Moretti and the Sociology of Literature: Bridging Distant/Close Reading and Field TheoryGisèle Sapiro8. The Moon and the Tides: Franco Moretti as Theorist of LiteratureFederico Bertoni 9. Serious ExperimentsMads Rosendahl Thomsen10. Can the Digital Humanities Kill Their Own Theories? Jérôme David11. The Roads to Rome: Literary Studies, Hermeneutics, QuantificationFranco MorettiIII On the Novel12. The Serious and the Tragic: Balzachian and Flaubertian NotesFrancesco Fiorentino13. The Novel, History, Politics: Franco Moretti and the Nineteenth-Century European NovelFrançoise Lavocat14. The Novel According to Franco MorettiEnrica Villari15. Useless Masterpiece: Notes on Lukács's Theory of the Novel Franco MorettiTime PassesFranco MorettiBibliography About the Authors