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Distant Reading
Franco MorettiIn the ten essays collected in this volume, Franco Moretti reconstructs the intellectual trajectory of his philosophy of ‘distant reading’.
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.
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.
Distant Reading
Franco MorettiThe essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje''s Writing
PreviewEd. Sam Solecki. Montréal: Vehicule, 1985. 150-55. Leclaire, Serge. " Unconscious Inscription: Another Memory." Psychoanalysis, Creativity, and Literature: A French- American Inquiry. Ed. Alan Roland. New York: Columbia UP , 1978. 75-84. Marks, Zita M. "Borromean Knot." A Compendium ofLacanian Terms. Ed. Huguette Glowinski, Zita Marks, and Sara Murphy. London: Free Association Books, 2001.38-41. Moretti, Franco. The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European ...
Franco-Americans of New England: Dreams and Realities
Yves RobyIn "The Franco-Americans of New England" Yves Roby describes the first-person accounts of French Canadians' immigration to New England, as well as those of their descendants, and the Franco-Americans.
Psychiatry Inside Out: Selected Writings of Franco Basaglia
Franco BasagliaA collection of essays by an Italian psychiatrist includes discussions of deviance, mental asylum reform, and the nature of madness
Franco (Text Only)
Paul PrestonGeneralissimo Francisco Franco, the Caudillo of Spain from the Nationalists' brutal, Fascist-sponsored victory over the Republican government in the Spanish Civil War until his quiet death in 1975, is the subject of this book.
Paraíso travel
Jorge Franco-RamosComme dans La Fille aux ciseaux, Jorge Franco dresse ici le portrait d'une génération désespérée au cœur d'un monde de violence.
Paraíso travel
Jorge FrancoUna novela de Jorge Franco autor de Rosario Tijeras y ganador del Premio Alfaguara de Novela 2014.
Franco American Dreams
Julie TaylorA fashion design student with her eyes firmly set on the runways of the future, Abbie MacPherson wavers when romance calls in the shape of a red-haired hunk named Franco, and she finds herself distracted from her life purpose.
El mundo de afuera (Premio Alfaguara de Novela 2014)
Jorge FrancoCon un perfecto manejo de la tensión, Jorge Franco construye en esta novela un cuento de hadas con tintes tenebrosos que acaba convirtiéndose en la historia desquiciada de un secuestro.
Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany, and World War II
Stanley G. PayneThis is the first book in any language to answer these intriguing questions. Stanley Payne, a leading historian of modern Spain, explores the full range of Franco’s relationship with Hitler, from 1936 to the fall of the Reich in 1945.
Q & A A Day for Kids: A Three-Year Journal
Betsy FrancoA question by children's author Betsy Franco is featured for each day with only a few lines provided for a response, making this journal the ultimate no-fuss record keeper. Simply turn to today's date and record your child's answer.
Paradise Travel: A Novel
Jorge FrancoPraise for Rosario Tijeras: "Latin America's McOndo literary movement drags the butterflies of magical realism into Burger King. With Jorge Franco's narco-saga Rosario Tijeras, it may have found its first masterpiece." —Rachel Aviv, Salon
The Sopranos: Born Under a Bad Sign
Franco RicciIn The Sopranos: Born under a Bad Sign, Franco Ricci presents an insightful analysis of the groundbreaking HBO series and its complex psychological themes.
A History of Franco-German Relations in Europe: From ...
Previewa history of franco-german relations in europe Copyright © Carine Germond and Henning Türk, 2008. All rights reserved. First published in 2008 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin's Press LLC, 175 Fifth ...
Interfaces franco-allemandes dans la culture populaire et ...
PreviewAlex Demeulenaere, Florian Henke, Christoph Vatter (Hg.) Interfaces franco- allemandes dans la culture populaire et les médias Deutsch-französische Schnittstellen in Populärkultur und Medien LIT Populäre Kultur und Medien, Bd. 10 Alex ...
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.
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.
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
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