Experimental Criticism - Franco Moretti and Literature

About the author

Francesco de Cristofaro teaches comparative literature at the University of Naples Federico II. He is the author of Zoo di romanzi (Zoo of Novels), Letterature comparate (Comparative Literature) and La palla al balzo (Leaping at the Chance). Stefano Ercolino teaches literary theory and comparative literature at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. His books include The Maximalist Novel, The Novel-Essay and, with Massimo Fusillo, Negative Empathy in Literature and the Arts (forthcoming).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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Francesco de Cristofaro (Editor), Ercolino Stefano (Editor), Richard Braude (Translation)
• Publisher: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 04.11.2025
• EAN: 9781804295076
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-507-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Weight: 350 g
• Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form