The Bourgeois Between History And Literature


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The Bourgeois


The Bourgeois
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Author : Franco Moretti
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2013-06-04

The Bourgeois written by Franco Moretti and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-04 with Social Science categories.


"I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, and have been brought up on its opinions and ideals," wrote Max Weber, in 1895. Who could repeat these words today? Thus begins Franco Moretti’s study of the bourgeois in modern European literature, where a gallery of individual portraits is entwined around the analysis of specific keywords – such as ‘useful’ and ‘earnest’, ‘efficiency’, ‘influence’, ‘comfort’, ‘roba’ – and of the formal mutations of the medium of prose. The book charts the rise and fall of bourgeois culture, exploring the causes for its historical weakness, and searches for the seeds of its failures.



The Bourgeois Between History And Literature


The Bourgeois Between History And Literature
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Author : Franco Moretti
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2013-06-04

The Bourgeois Between History And Literature written by Franco Moretti and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-04 with Literary Criticism categories.


Provides a study of the bourgeois in modern European literature, examining the literary decline and fall of this once dominant social class.



The Bourgeois


The Bourgeois
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Author : Franco Moretti
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2013-06-04

The Bourgeois written by Franco Moretti and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-04 with Social Science categories.


"The bourgeois ... Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentioned. Capitalism is more powerful than ever, but its human embodiment seems to have vanished. 'I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, and have been brought up on its opinions and ideals,' wrote Max Weber, in 1895. Who could repeat these words today? Bourgeois 'opinions and ideals'-what are they?" Thus begins Franco Moretti's study of the bourgeois in modern European literature-a major new analysis of the once-dominant culture and its literary decline and fall. Moretti's gallery of individual portraits is entwined with the analysis of specific keywords-"useful" and "earnest," "efficiency," "influence," "comfort," "roba"-and of the formal mutations of the medium of prose. From the "working master" of the opening chapter, through the seriousness of nineteenth-century novels, the conservative hegemony of Victorian Britain, the "national malformations" of the Southern and Eastern periphery, and the radical self-critique of Ibsen's twelve-play cycle, the book charts the vicissitudes of bourgeois culture, exploring the causes for its historical weakness, and for its current irrelevance.



Distant Reading


Distant Reading
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Author : Franco Moretti
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2013-06-04

Distant Reading written by Franco Moretti and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-04 with Literary Criticism categories.


How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis. In presenting them here Franco Moretti reconstructs his intellectual trajectory, the theoretical influences over his work, and explores the polemics that have often developed around his positions. From the evolutionary model of "Modern European Literature," through the geo-cultural insights of "Conjectures of World Literature" and "Planet Hollywood," to the quantitative findings of "Style, inc." and the abstract patterns of "Network Theory, Plot Analysis," the book follows two decades of conceptual development, organizing them around the metaphor of "distant reading," that has come to define-well beyond the wildest expectations of its author-a growing field of unorthodox literary studies.



Graphs Maps Trees


Graphs Maps Trees
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Author : Franco Moretti
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2020-05-05

Graphs Maps Trees written by Franco Moretti and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-05 with Literary Criticism categories.


In this groundbreaking book, Franco Moretti argues that literature scholars should stop reading books and start counting, graphing, and mapping them instead. In place of the traditionally selective literary canon of a few hundred texts, Moretti offers charts, maps and time lines, developing the idea of "distant reading" into a full-blown experiment in literary historiography, in which the canon disappears into the larger literary system. Charting entire genres-the epistolary, the gothic, and the historical novel-as well as the literary output of countries such as Japan, Italy, Spain, and Nigeria, he shows how literary history looks significantly different from what is commonly supposed and how the concept of aesthetic form can be radically redefined.



Between History And Literature


Between History And Literature
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Author : Lionel Gossman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1990

Between History And Literature written by Lionel Gossman and has been published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Historiography categories.


In our world of sophisticated literary theory and cliometrics, the gap between literature and history, between literary scholars and historians, has at times seemed to be widening. Drawing on essays written over the course of a distinguished teaching career, Lionel Gossman illuminates the many facets of the problematic relationship between history and literature and shows how each discipline both challenges and undermines the other's absolutist pretensions. In his first chapters Gossman underlines the historicity of the very category of literature and explores the political and social implications of the notions we have of it. Literature emerges as something whose meaning and content are not as self-evident as we think; instead, what is designated by the term literature is defined by a larger cultural structure that is constantly changing. Gossman then turns to the interweaving of history and literature in historical writing itself, showing how literary narratives, philosophy, and politics are inextricably bound up in the texts of two major Romantic historians, Augustin Thierry and Jules Michelet. Seeing ourselves in relation to our Romantic predecessors--set out sympathetically and fully here by Gossman--should cause us to reflect on the current disjunction between literature and history and to try to imagine new ways in which one practice may assist and enrich the other. The final chapters deal directly with the question of the relationship between history and literature, both historically and as a contemporary problem. The last essay in particular addresses the twin issues of the place of narrative in historiography and the alleged incommensurability of historical narratives. Gossman's detailed inquiries into the work of the Romantic historians and his thoughtful reflections on his own assumptions and practices as a scholar exemplify the highest ideals of humanistic scholarship. This eloquent and erudite work challenges us to rethink our notions about literature and history while enriching our understanding of both disciplines.



Public Sphere And Experience


Public Sphere And Experience
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Author : Alexander Kluge
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2016-02-02

Public Sphere And Experience written by Alexander Kluge and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-02 with Philosophy categories.


The “public sphere” is a key concept in political discourse, designating a space for political action. But is this a single authoritative and universal space in which various positions compete for recognition, or does it consist of multiple local spaces spread over diverse collectivities? In Kluge and Negt’s groundbreaking book they examine the material conditions of experience in an arena that had previously figured only as an abstract term: the media of mass and consumer culture. With a new, up-to-date introduction from Alexander Kluge.



Building A National Literature


Building A National Literature
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Author : Peter Uwe Hohendahl
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1989

Building A National Literature written by Peter Uwe Hohendahl and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.


Building a National Literature boldly takes issue with traditional literary criticism for its failure to explain how literature as a body is created and shaped by institutional forces. Peter Uwe Hohendahl approaches literary history by focusing on the material and ideological structures that determine the canonical status of writers and works. He examines important elements in the making of a national literature, including the political and literary public sphere, the theory and practice of literary criticism, and the emergence of academic criticism as literary history. Hohendahl considers such key aspects of the process in Germany as the rise of liberalism and nationalism, the delineation of the borders of German literature, the idea of its history, the understanding of its cultural function, and the notion of a canon of major and minor authors.



Modern Epic


Modern Epic
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Author : Franco Moretti
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 1996

Modern Epic written by Franco Moretti and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Epic literature categories.


Having coined a new term modern epic, the author analyses the phenomenon, & attempts to situate the works of e.g. Joyce, Proust & Musil within our literary tradition.



Modernity And Bourgeois Life


Modernity And Bourgeois Life
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Author : Jerrold Seigel
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-04-12

Modernity And Bourgeois Life written by Jerrold Seigel and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-12 with History categories.


What does it mean to be modern? In the nineteenth century a consensus emerged that Western Europe was giving birth to a new form of life in which bourgeois activities, people, attitudes and values played a key role. Jerrold Seigel offers a magisterial account of the development of European modernity.