Modern Epic: The World-system from Goethe to García Márquez by Franco Moretti
Modern Epic: The World-system from Goethe to García Márquez

Franco Moretti

Modern Epic: The World-system from Goethe to García Márquez

Franco Moretti

272 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

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Literary history has long been puzzled by how to classify and treat these aesthetic monuments. In this highly original and interdisciplinary work, Franco Moretti builds a theory of the modern epic—a sort of super-genre that has provided many of t...

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