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Franco Moretti
Researcher at Stanford University
Publications - 44
Citations - 3528
Franco Moretti is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Literary criticism & Tragedy. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 41 publications receiving 3377 citations.
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Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History
TL;DR: MoreMoretti as discussed by the authors argues that literature scholars should stop reading books and start counting, graphing, and mapping them instead, and offers charts, maps and time lines, developing the idea of "distant reading" into a full-blown experiment in literary history.
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Goethe's Heirs@@@The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture
Edna L. Steeves,Franco Moretti +1 more
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The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture
TL;DR: Moretti as discussed by the authors interprets the Bildungsroman as the great cultural mediator of nineteenth-century Europe: a form which explores the many strange compromises between revolution and restoration, economic take-off and aesthetic pleasure, individual autonomy and social normality.
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Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900
TL;DR: Moretti as mentioned in this paper explored the fictionalization of geography in the nineteenth-century novel and found that space may well be the secret protagonist of cultural history, in a series of one hundred maps, alongside Spanish picaresque novels, African colonial romances and Russian novels of ideas.
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The Slaughterhouse of Literature
TL;DR: The history of the world is the slaughterhouse of literature, reads a famous Hegelian aphorism; and literature is the world's slaughterhouse as discussed by the authors, and the majority of books disappear forever.