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- Book Title
- Modern Epic : the World System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez
- Publication Name
- Modern Epic
- Title
- Modern Epic
- Subtitle
- The World System from Goethe to García Márquez
- Translator
- Quintin Hoare
- Contributor
- Quintin Hoare (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1859840698
- EAN
- 9781859840696
- ISBN
- 9781859840696
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Social Science
- Release Date
- 17/04/1996
- Release Year
- 1996
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 13.5 Oz
- Publication Year
- 1996
- Topic
- Comparative Literature, European / German, Sociology / General, European / General, General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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.Take Faust , what is it? A .tragedy., as its author states? A great philosophical tale? A collection of lyrical insights? Who can say. How about Moby-Dick ? Encyclopedia, novel or romance? Or even a .singular medley,. as one anonymous 1851 review put it? . .It is no longer a novel,. T.S. Eliot said of Ulysses . But if not novels, then what are they'. 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 the .sacred texts. of Western literary culture. He provides a taxonomy capable of accommodating Faust , Moby-Dick, The Nibelung.s Ring, Ulysses, The Cantos, The Waste Land, The Man Without Qualities and One Hundred Years of Solitude . For Moretti the significance of the modern epic reaches well beyond the aesthetic sphere: it is the form that represents the European domination of the planet, and establishes a solid consent around it. Political ambition and formal inventiveness are here continuously entwined, as the representation of the world system stimulates the technical breakthroughs of polyphony, reverie and leitmotif; of the stream of consciousness, collage and complexity. Opening with an analysis of Goethe.s Faust and the different historical roles of epic and the novel, Moretti moves through a discussion of Wagner.s Ring and on to a sociology of modernist technique. He ends with a fascinating interpretation of .magic realism. as a compromise formation between a number of modernist devices and the return of narrative interest, and suggests that the west.s enthusiastic reception of these texts (and One Hundred Years of Solitude in particular) constitutes a ritual self-absolution for centuries of colonialism.
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Publisher
Verso Books
ISBN-10
1859840698
ISBN-13
9781859840696
eBay Product ID (ePID)
307973
Product Key Features
Book Title
Modern Epic : the World System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Comparative Literature, European / German, Sociology / General, European / General, General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
1996
Genre
Literary Criticism, Social Science
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
13.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn56.E65m6713 1996
Reviews
"Moretti here casts a whole new light on traditional discussions of modernism. Modern Epic is an exciting, stimulating, and finally a profound book in which his own work reaches new heights."-Fredric Jameson
Copyright Date
1996
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
95-043983
Dewey Decimal
809
Dewey Edition
20
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