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Experimental Criticism offers a series of close critical engagements with one of the world's most innovative literary thinkers. Franco Moretti, author of such major works as Signs Taken for Wonders, The Way of the World, Modern Epic, Atlas of the European Novel and The Bourgeois, 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 studies.
Topics include literary theory and method, problems of scale and canonisation, the evolution of literary forms, abstract modelling and the digital humanities, comparative versus world literature, Marxism and literary history, and tragedy and the novel. There are essays from Moretti himself on Lukács and the tensions between close and distant reading, plus a 'provisional epilogue' in which he reflects on his intellectual itinerary and the challenges posed by contributors to this volume. 'Why study literature?' he asks. For the pleasure of reducing complex things to their simple elements; to bring them back to earth.
This key retrospective amounts to a critical manifesto for an experimental literary materialism, one unafraid to test radical new hypotheses.
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
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