{"product_id":"modern-epic-the-world-system-from-goethe-to-garcia-marquez-paperback-1","title":"Modern Epic: The World System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFranco Moretti\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eQuintin Hoare\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Take \u003ci\u003eFaust\u003c\/i\u003e, what is it? A 'tragedy', as its author states? A great philosophical tale? A collection of lyrical insights? Who can say. How about \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e? 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 \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e. But if not novels, then what are they?\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLiterary history has long been puzzled by how to classify and treat these aesthetic monuments. In this highly original and interdisciplinary work, Franco Moretti builds a theory of the modern epic: a sort of super-genre that has provided many of the \"sacred texts\" of Western literary culture. He provides a taxonomy capable of accommodating \u003ci\u003eFaust\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick, The Nibelung's Ring, Ulysses, The Cantos, The Waste Land, The Man Without Qualities \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor Moretti the significance of the modern epic reaches well beyond the aesthetic sphere: it is the form that represents the European domination of the planet, and establishes a solid consent around it. Political ambition and formal inventiveness are here continuously entwined, as the representation of the world system stimulates the technical breakthroughs of polyphony, reverie and leitmotif; of the stream of consciousness, collage and complexity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOpening with an analysis of Goethe's \u003ci\u003eFaust\u003c\/i\u003e and the different historical roles of epic and the novel, Moretti moves through a discussion of Wagner's \u003ci\u003eRing\u003c\/i\u003e and on to a sociology of modernist technique. He ends with a fascinating interpretation of \"magic realism\" as a compromise formation between a number of modernist devices and the return of narrative interest, and suggests that the west's enthusiastic reception of these texts (and \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e in particular) constitutes a ritual self-absolution for centuries of colonialism.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFranco Moretti\u003c\/b\u003e teaches English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eSigns Taken for Wonders\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Way of the World\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eModern Epic\u003c\/i\u003e, all from Verso. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuintin Hoare\u003c\/b\u003e is the director of the Bosnian Institute and has translated numerous works by Sartre, Antonio Gramsci, and other French authors. He lives in the United Kingdom.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 9.28 x 6.16 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 17, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52704090030387,"sku":"9781859840696","price":41.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/TnRwlBx5169781859840696_81367eb4-057c-4bc2-97af-99574aadbc0b.webp?v=1763348191","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/modern-epic-the-world-system-from-goethe-to-garcia-marquez-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}