Signs Taken for Wonders: Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms by Franco Moretti

Signs Taken for Wonders: Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms

Franco Moretti

314 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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 ...

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