Modern Epic by Franco Moretti

Pt. 1. Faust And The Nineteenth Century. 'i Want A Hero ... '. 'in The Beginning Was The Deed'. Literary Evolution. I. Rhetoric Of Innocence. I. 'he Sees Visions Of Giant Undertakings . . .'. An Inherited Form. Non-contemporaneity. I. 'so Many Little Independent Worlds'. World Texts. I. 'an Incredible Musical Pandemonium'. Polyphony In America. I. Polyphony In America. Ii. 'with All The Certainty Of A Mechanical Process'. Literary Evolution. Ii. Allegory And Modernity. I. 'you, I Think, Should Know Us All'. The Sign Run Amok. Allegory And Modernity. Ii. 'but Infinite Forms Do Not Exist . . .'. Transition: The Nibelung's Ring. 'drink First, Hero, So That Distant Things Don't Escape You'. Monumental Dilettantism. Twofold Myth. Art Of Transition. Franco Moretti ; Translated By Quintin Hoare. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. This 1996 Verso Paperback is in good condition.

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