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Backtracking Moretti. De la distant reading la estetica marxistă (II)
Backtracking Moretti: From Distant Reading to Marxist Aesthetics

Author(s): Alex Cistelecan
Subject(s): Philology
Published by: Vatra Literară
Keywords: Franco Moretti; modern novel; modern epic; aesthetic authonomy,; sociology of literature;

Summary/Abstract: The essay, which continues a previous investigation published in Vatra no. 8-9/2020, further retraces the evolution of Franco Moretti’s thought, focusing on the years 1990s and the opposite manifestations of Moretti’s most important categories from this period – the novel and the anti-novel of the ‘modern epic’, as well as on the beginnings of his ‘distant reading’ paradigm shift.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 1-2/2021
  • Page Range: 132-138
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian
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