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Modern Epic

Modern Epic( )
Author: Moretti, Franco
Translator: Hoare, Quintin
ISBN:978-1-85984-934-7
Publication Date:Apr 1996
Publisher:Verso Books
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $65.00
Book Description:

"Take Faust, what is it? A 'tragedy,' as its author states? A great philosophical tale? A collection of lyrical insights? Who can say. 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...
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Book Details
Pages:272
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / German
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.357 x 9.516 x 0.39 Inches
Book Weight:1.25 Pounds



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