Modern Epic Moretti Franco
Modern Epic Moretti Franco "Take Faust, what is it? A great philosophical tale? A 'tragedy', as its author states? Who can say. A collection of lyrical insights? How about Moby-Dick? Modern Epic…
Specifikacia Modern Epic Moretti Franco
Modern Epic Moretti Franco
"Take Faust, what is it? A great philosophical tale? A 'tragedy', as its author states?
Who can say. A collection of lyrical insights? 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