Franco Moretti: 7 books

The influential and controversial critic takes literary history out of the classroom and into the public In the field of literary history and theory, Franco Moretti is synonymous with innovation. The cofounder of the Stanford Literary Lab, he brought quantitative methods into the study of the...

¿Por qué un historiador de la literatura llega a pensar en mapas literarios, series de novelas, flujos de traducción y diagramas de colecciones bibliográficas? En los diez ensayos reunidos en este volumen Franco Moretti reconstruye el itinerario intelectual que siguió su idea de la "lectura...

**WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD ** How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis. In presenting them...

"I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, and have been brought up on its opinions and ideals," wrote Max Weber, in 1895. Who could repeat these words today? Thus begins Franco Moretti’s study of the bourgeois in modern European literature, where a gallery...

In this collection of essays, leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging with Immanuel Wallerstein’s world-systems analysis. The renowned sociologist developed his influential critical framework to explain the historical and continuing...

Aunque el capitalismo es más poderoso que nunca, su encarnación humana parece haberse desvanecido. A partir de esta constatación, el autor emprende un análisis de la figura del burgués en la literatura europea moderna, en el cual entrelaza una galería de retratos individuales.

Un tempo, quando ci si inoltrava negli "-anta", era la volta del momento critico in cui si tiravano le somme di una vita e ci si prepararava agli anni della vecchiaia. Oggi si vive di più e meglio, e spesso i sessantenni odierni sono molto più in forma dei cinquantenni di una volta. Non...