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The New Geography of Jobs
Enrico MorettiDealing with this split—supporting growth in the hubs while arresting the decline elsewhere—is the challenge of the century, and The New Geography of Jobs lights the way.
Atlas of the European Novel, 1800-1900
Franco MorettiMoretti explores the fascinating connections between literature and space, illuminating the geographical assumptions of 19th century novels and the geographical reach of particular authors and genres across the continent.
Distant Reading
Franco MorettiIn the ten essays collected in this volume, Franco Moretti reconstructs the intellectual trajectory of his philosophy of ‘distant reading’.
Slaves and Religions in Graeco-Roman Antiquity and Modern Brazil
PreviewDal Lago, Enrico and Constantina Katsari, eds. Slave Systems Ancient and Modern. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Dal Lago, Enrico, and Constantina Katsari. “Ideal models of slave management in the Roman World and in ...
Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History
Franco MorettiA manifesto for a text-free literary scholarship.
Signs Taken for Wonders: On the Sociology of Literary Forms
Franco MorettiA compelling analysis of the relations between high and mass culture, from tragedy and horror to detective fiction and classical realism.
The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature
Franco MorettiFrom 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 ...
The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature
Franco MorettiThe book charts the rise and fall of bourgeois culture, exploring the causes for its historical weakness, and searches for the seeds of its failures. From the Hardcover edition.
The Enforcer
Kele MoonIt’s not until the borgata puts out a hit on her that Brianna falls back into Tino’s arms, churning up their dark past and unraveling all the Moretti brothers’ closely guarded secrets. This isn’t the end of the story.
Distant Reading
Franco MorettiThe essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis.
Annual Report
ReadComparison with the mouse MARCIA W. ROSENTHAL, ARTHUR LINDENBAUM, JOHN J. RUSSELL, ELIZABETH MORETTI, AND DOROTHY CHLADEK 86 Deposition patterns and toxicity of plutonium and americium in liver ARTHUR ...
Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice: Architecture, Music, ...
Laura MorettiPreface -- 1. introduction -- 2. San Marco -- 3. Island monasteries -- 4. Mendicant friaries -- 5. Parish churches -- 6. Opedali Grandi -- 7. General conclusions -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Photo credits -- Glossary
The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture
Franco MorettiThis new edition includes an additional final chapter on the collapse of the Bildungsroman in the years around the First World War (a crisis which opened the way for Modernist experimentation), and a new preface in which the author looks ...
Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man ...
William LanouetteWell-known names such as Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Edward Teller are usually those that surround the creation of the atom bomb.
A New Companion to Digital Humanities
Susan SchreibmanSarah Allison, Ryan Heuser, Matthew Jockers, Franco Moretti, and Michael Witmore. Quantitative Formalism (http://litlab.stanford.edu/LiteraryLabPamphlet1. pdf). A report on a study designed to establish whether computer‐generated ...
University of Chicago Graduate Problems in Physics with ...
Jeremiah A. CroninAmong these are Morrell H. Cohen, Enrico Fermi, Murray Gell-Mann, Roger Hildebrand, Robert S. Mulliken, John Simpson, and Edward Teller.
Modern Epic: The World-system from Goethe to García Márquez
Franco MorettiHaving 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.
L'ultimo velo
Nancy BilyeauUn magnifico affresco storico ambientato nell'Inghilterra del Cinquecento, sotto il regno di Enrico VIII: una lettura appassionante che mescola sapientemente intrighi, tradimenti, morte e amori proibiti.
Meaning in Dialogue: An Interactive Approach to Logic and ...
James TraffordAndreas Kapsner. Logics and Falsifications: A New Perspective on Constructivist Semantics, volume 40. Springer, 2015. Enrico Martino and Gabriele Usberti. Temporal and atemporal truth in intuitionistic mathematics. Topoi, 13(2):83–92, ...
American Slavery, Atlantic Slavery, and Beyond: The U.S. ...
Enrico Dal LagoSee Shearer Davis Bowman, “Industrialization and Economic Development in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. South: Some Interregional and Intercontinental Comparative Perspectives” in Susanna Delfino and Michelle Gillespie, eds., Global ...
Agrarian Elites: American Slaveholders and Southern Italian ...
Enrico Dal LagoMy biggest thanks, though, go to my wife, Constantina Katsari. Ever since she came into my life, Constantina helped me in countless ways, giving me her love and support and also allowing me to share my thoughts and constructively criticizing ...
Recent Trends in Philosophical Logic
PreviewMassimiliano Carrara and Enrico Martino Abstract According to classical logic, the acceptance of a dialetheia, a proposition that is both true and false, entails trivialism the output that every sentence is true. One way to accept dialetheias but ...
Preaching Bondage: John Chrysostom and the Discourse of ...
Chris L. de WetIn an interesting comparative study, Enrico Dal Lago and Constantina Katsari have identified some striking continuities between Roman slaveholding and slaveholding in the antebellum American South.10 They point out that models of slave ...
Polygon Mesh Processing
Mario Botsch... Paolo Cignoni, Fabio Ganovelli, Enrico Gobbetti, Fabio Marton, Federico Ponchio, and Roberto Scopigno. “Adaptive Tetrapuzzles: Efficient Out-Of-Core Construction and Visualization of Gigantic Multires– olution Polygonal Models.
Treading Grapes: Walking Through The Vineyards Of Tuscany
Rosemary Georgeand Rosanna Lorieri at Podere Scuratola in the Colli Apuani, Giampiero and Lucia de Andreis at the Fattoria di Fubbiano in the Colline Lucchesi, Enrico Lippi and his family at Frascole in Rufina, Ugo and Lisa Contini Bonacossi at Tenuta di ...
Slave Revolts in Antiquity
Theresa UrbainczykTwo conferences helped sustain me: one in Galway (“Slave Systems, Ancient and Modern”, organized by Enrico del Lago and Constantina Katsari in November 2004); the other in Hull (“Slavery, Unfinished Business”, organized by the ...
Atria Mystery Sampler 2016
William Kent KruegerWilliam Kent Krueger, Christine Carbo, Mindy Mejia, John Connolly, Matthew Betley, Thomas Mullen, Kate Moretti, John Lescroart, R. G. Belsky, Christina Kovac, K.A. Tucker, Mikel Santiago, Vince Flynn ...
Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice
Thomas F. MaddenCulminating with the crisis precipitated by the failure of the Fourth Crusade, Madden's groundbreaking work reveals the extent to which Dandolo and his successors became torn between the anxieties and apprehensions of Venice's citizens and ...
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