Far Country: Scenes from American Culture

by Franco Moretti

Book Overview

The influential and controversial critic takes literary history out of the classroom and into the public

In the field of literary history and theory, Franco Moretti is synonymous with innovation. The cofounder of the Stanford Literary Lab, he brought quantitative methods into the study of the novel, enabling a "distant" reading that uses computation to analyze literary production over centuries. But at the same time, he was also teaching...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374272700
• ISBN13: 9780374272708
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.4"