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Experimental Criticism provides a series of close critical engagements with Franco Moretti. One of the world's most innovative literary thinkers, Moretti may be best known for his 'distant reading' of vast numbers of literary texts at the Stanford Literary Lab. Francesco de Cristofaro and Stefano Ercolino lead a lively exploration of his work as a springboard for rethinking the fundamentals of literary theory. Topics include world literature and the Digital Humanities, literary morphology and evolutionary theory, the sociology of literature, and Marxism and literary history. A concluding section is dedicated to the novel, one of Moretti's most prized research objects.
Experimental Criticism reconstructs Moretti's intellectual journey, from origins on the Italian Trotskyist Left to the project for a historical atlas of literature and later computational turn. The collection includes essays from Moretti himself on Lukács's Theory of the Novel and the methodological tension between close and distant reading. 'Why study literature?', he asks. For the pleasure of reducing complex things to their simple elements; to bring them back to earth.
"A sheer intelligence animates the pages of Moretti's work."
New York Times
"A great iconoclast of literary criticism."
Guardian
"Few are as hell-bent [as Moretti] on rethinking the way we talk about literature."
Times Literary Supplement
Contents
Criticism as Experiment
Francesco de Cristofaro and Stefano Ercolino
I Towards an Intellectual History
1. Unrestrained Individuation
Stefano Ercolino
2. Discourse on Method
Francesco de Cristoforo
3. The New Anatomy Table
Giuseppe Episcopo
II Experimental Criticism
4. Essayism: Franco Moretti
Guido Mazzoni
5. Morphology in America: Evolutionary Theory as an Experiment in Radical Sociology
Andrea Miconi
6. Towards a More Rational Literary History
Patricia McManus
7. Franco Moretti and the Sociology of Literature: Bridging Distant/Close Reading and Field Theory
Gisèle Sapiro
8. The Moon and the Tides: Franco Moretti as Theorist of Literature
Federico Bertoni
9. Serious Experiments
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
10. Can the Digital Humanities Kill Their Own Theories?
Jérôme David
11. The Roads to Rome: Literary Studies, Hermeneutics, Quantification
Franco Moretti
III On the Novel
12. The Serious and the Tragic: Balzachian and Flaubertian Notes
Francesco Fiorentino
13. The Novel, History, Politics: Franco Moretti and the Nineteenth-Century European Novel
Françoise Lavocat
14. The Novel According to Franco Moretti
Enrica Villari
15. Useless Masterpiece: Notes on Lukács's Theory of the Novel
Franco Moretti
Time Passes
Franco Moretti
Bibliography
About the Authors
