Far Country

Pioneering literary theorist takes cultural history out of the classroom and into the world.

About the author

Franco Moretti is a Professor Emeritus at Stanford, where he founded the Center for the Study of the Novel and the Literary Lab. He writes regularly for New Left Review and is a Permanent Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is the author of, among other books, Far Country, The Bourgeois and Graphs, Maps, Trees. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. His book Distant Reading won the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

Summary

Pioneering literary theorist takes cultural history out of the classroom and into the world.

Product details

• Authors: Franco Moretti, Moretti Franco
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.04.2019
• EAN: 9781788737241
• ISBN: 978-1-78873-724-1
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literary studies: general, Literary essays, Literary theory