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Far Country

Franco Moretti author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Verso Books

Published:2nd Apr '19

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Far Country cover

Pioneering literary theorist takes cultural history out of the classroom and into the world

A dazzling account of the development of American cultural hegemony from one of the world's leading literary theorists. Franco Moretti, acclaimed author of Graphs, Maps, Trees and Distant Reading, distils a lifetime of teaching and research to present "the university, in the form of an essay". Ranging from poetry and the novel to theatre and the visual arts, Far Country juxtaposes canonical figures in American art and letters with European counterparts-Whitman and Baudelaire, Hemingway and Joyce, Miller and Brecht, Hopper and Vermeer-charting ruptures in the medium of form that have transformed the cultural landscape on either side of the Atlantic over the past century.

Moretti's body of work is one of genius . a breath of fresh air amid the incense -- McKenzie Wark * LA Review of Books *
A great iconoclast of literary criticism -- John Sutherland * The Guardian *
One of the most daring and intellectually exciting books of the year -- Michael Lindgren * Washington Post [for Distant Reading] *
Few are as hell-bent on rethinking the way we talk about literature -- Eric Bulson * Times Literary Supplement *

ISBN: 9781788737241

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 291g

176 pages