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21%OFFFranco Moretti - The Novel, Volume 2: Forms and Themes - 9780691134734 - V9780691134734
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The Novel, Volume 2: Forms and Themes

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Description for The Novel, Volume 2: Forms and Themes Paperback. A translated selection from the epic five-volume "Italian Il Romanzo" (2001-2003), this title views the novel primarily from the inside, examining its many formal arrangements and recurrent thematic manifestations, and looking at the plurality of the genre and its lineages. It is suitable for all students and scholars of literature. Editor(s): Moretti, Franco. Num Pages: 960 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1316.
Nearly as global in its ambition and sweep as its subject, Franco Moretti's The Novel is a watershed event in the understanding of the first truly planetary literary form. A translated selection from the epic five-volume Italian Il Romanzo (2001-2003), The Novel's two volumes are a unified multiauthored reference work, containing more than one hundred specially commissioned essays by leading contemporary critics from around the world. Providing the first international comparative reassessment of the novel, these essential volumes reveal the form in unprecedented depth and breadth--as a great cultural, social, and human phenomenon that stretches from the ancient Greeks to ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
944
Condition
New
Number of Pages
960
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691134734
SKU
V9780691134734
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About Franco Moretti
Franco Moretti is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University, where he founded the Center for the Study of the Novel. He is the author of "Signs Taken for Wonders, The Way of the World, Modern Epic, Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900," and "Graphs, Maps, Trees".

Reviews for The Novel, Volume 2: Forms and Themes
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007 Honorable Mention for the 2007 John G. Cawelti Award, American Culture Association "The most crucial aspect of the Il romanzo project is the idea driving it to see literature globally, to free 'the novel' from its modernist, strictly Western center of emergence and consider instead how the form has mutated around the ... Read more

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