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Signs Taken for Wonders: Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms

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 | #1237818 in Books |  Franco Moretti |  1988-05-17 |  1988-05-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.90 x.50 x5.50l,.91 | File type: PDF | 324 pages

 | Signs Taken For Wonders

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Shakespearean tragedy and Dracula, Sherlock Holmes and Ulysses, Frankenstei and The Waste Land—all are celebrated “wonders” of modern literature, whether in its mandarin or popular form. However, it is the fact that these texts are so central to our contemporary notion of literature that sometimes hinders our ability to understand them. Franco Moretti applies himself to this problem by drawing skillfully on structurali...

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