Keywords world literature franco moretti distant reading canon and noncanon it is. World literature and the slaughterhouse of literature, in hopes of providing a fuller picture of exactly what kind of reading and what kinds of distance are implied by distant reading. English morettian picaresque franco moretti relishes his image as a maverick and a troublemaker. Conjectures on world literature, the text that in many ways brought metaanalysis to. Atlas of the european novel 18001900 franco moretti.
In an article entitled conjectures on world literature, published in 2000, franco moretti writes against the. In this very brief talk, i will revisit the coining of the term distant reading by franco moretti in his 2000 essay, conjectures on world literature. Here franco moretti offers a set of hypotheses for tracking the birth and fate of the novel in the peripheries of europe, in latin america, arab lands, turkey, china, japan, west africa. The university of texas at austin recommended for you. May 02, 2018 franco morettis seminal collection distant reading set out his famous quantitative approach to literary criticism and was a key contribution to the emergent field of digital humanities. When franco moretti 2000 introduced the concept of distant reading as a. On franco morettis conjectures on world literature. The idea of creating a literary atlas grips professor moretti, and this book is a small attempt at doing so. In presenting them here franco moretti reconstructs his intellectual trajectory, the theoretical influences over his work, and explores the polemics that have often developed around his positions. Damrosch, introduction to what is world literature.
Franco moretti s book is based on some interesting ideas, foremost among them the application and use of geography in studying literature. In conjectures on world literature and more conjectures moretti 2000a moretti. The slaughterhouse of literature franco moretti the slaughter l et me begin with a few titles. Distant reading franco moretti download free ebook. The essays in distant reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis. Franco moretti at the institute for world literature. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. The question is not really what we should franco moretti. Franco moretti at the institute for world literature, university of lisbon. I will borrow this initial hypothesis from the worldsystem school of economic history, for which international capitalism is a system that is simultaneously one, and unequal.
Since he coined the term in i i i, franco morettis notion of distant reading has become very popular. Franco moretti is one of those rare critics who consistently churns out books thatthough never unassailably argued or immaculately interpretivenevertheless change forever the way you read a genre. World literature is used to refer to the total of the worlds national literature. He is the author of signs taken for wonders, the way of the world and modern epic, all from verso. Distant reading by franco moretti in fb2, fb3, rtf download ebook. Morettis interest in the big questions of literary evolution, literary form and narrative universals was shared and significantly influenced by early twentiethcentury russian formalism, writes. Franco morettis seminal collection distant reading set out his famous quantitative approach to literary criticism and was a key contribution to the emergent field of digital humanities. Franco moretti, graphs, maps, trees2007 it is difficult to bracket franco morettis controversial. A brief note on moretti and science fiction adam roberts 49 6. In the article, moretti proposed a mode of reading which included works outside of established literary canons, which he variously termed the great unread and, elsewhere, the slaughterhouse of literature. Conjectures on world literature, revisited yumi dineen shiroma. In presenting them here franco pdf moretti reconstructs his intellectual trajectory, the theoretical influences over his work, and explores the polemics that have often developed around his positions. Il demone della distanza e langelo della vicinanza. The consequences of morettis methodology now begin to clearly.
Summary, discussion, and questions on moretti s article. Franco morettis book is based on some interesting ideas, foremost among them the application and use of geography in studying literature. Distant reading isbn 9781781680841 pdf epub franco moretti. In an essay called conjectures on world literaturepublished in 2000. Summary, discussion, and questions on morettis article. From the evolutionary model of modern european literature, through the geocultural dominant of conjectures on world literature and planet hollywood to the quantitative findings of style, inc. In his muchcited essay conjectures on world literature he proposed a. From the evolutionary model of modern european literature, through the geocultural insights of conjectures of world literature and planet hollywood, to the quantitative findings of style, inc. Moretti, conjectures on world literature sense of planet. Franco moretti is an italian literary scholar, trained as a marxist critic, whose work focuses on the history of the novel as a planetary form. He is currently a senior advisor at epfl, the swiss federal institute of technology in lausanne, switzerland. Franco moretti speculates on how this system works, what are the mechanisms for new literary production, specially in the clash of the center and the periphery.
From the evolutionary model of modern european literature. Its a shorter, lighter piece than i expected perhaps some of that is just contrast with the denseness of hayot, but theres also a sense that. For the first time, the prospect of a morphology of global letters. Jun 04, 20 from the evolutionary model of modern european literature, through the geocultural insights of conjectures of world literature and planet hollywood, to the quantitative findings of style, inc. World literature is used to refer to the total of the world s national literature and the circulation of works into the wider world beyond their country of origin. For franco moretti, the premise of exemplary reading in the face of the great unread is wrong. Moretti believes that the scale of world literature exceeds what can be grasped by traditional methods of close reading, and.
Franco moretti, conjectures on world literature, nlr 1. Conjectures on world literature university of warwick. Franco moretti teaches english and comparative literature at columbia university. A geographical sketch and conjectures on world literature, as well as the related chapters more conjectures on world literature and evolution, worldsystems, weltliteratur, use wallerstein as a glue for combining evolutionary theory and dh techniques. In conjectures on world literature 2000 moretti discusses two basic cognitive metaphors. The world system from goethe to garcia marquez thus far about the ebook weve modern epic. Distant reading by franco moretti pdf free download ebook. In conjectures on world literature and more conjectures moretti 2000a moretti, 2003 suggests that world literary history must strive to account for the massive unread archive, the. Pdf conjectures on world literature semantic scholar.
The term distant reading is generally attributed to franco moretti and his 2000 article, conjectures on world literature. World literature oxford comparative criticism and translation. Back in 2000, when he first he proposed distant reading as a method in his essay. He has written five books, signs taken for wonders 1983, the way of the world 1987, modern epic 1995, atlas of the european novel, 18001900 1998, and graphs, maps, trees. Moretti may be able to see all of literature, but hell see it as an. In presenting them here franco moretti reconstructs his intellectual trajectory, the theoretical influences over his work, and explores the polemics that. Franco moretti born 1950 in sondrio is an italian literary historian and theorist.
The united states is the country of close reading, so i dont expect. How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of zscores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficient. In the ten essays collected in this volume, franco moretti reconstructs the intellectual trajectory of his philosophy of distant reading. Instead, distant reading originally referred to the study of world. He has taught at the universities of salerno 19791983 and verona 19831990. In the way of the world, moretti sets his sights on the european bildungsroman. Distant reading isbn 9781781680841 pdf epub franco. Take a form, follow it from space to space, and study the reasons for its transformations. In its original formulation, in the essay conjectures on world literature, the term had nothing to do with the digital analysis of literature we associate it with today, and not even with the visualizations and mappings of e. Franco morettis suggestion that we swap close for distant reading has shaken up the academy. In presenting them here franco pdf moretti reconstructs his intellectual trajectory, the theoretical influences over his work, and explores the polemics that. Franco morettis graphs, maps, trees tim burke 41 5. The question is not really what we should franco moretti conjectures on world literature my mission.
On franco morettis conjectures on world literature prezi. Franco moretti born 1950 in sondrio is an italian literary scholar, trained as a marxist critic, whose work focuses on the history of the novel as a planetary form. Conjectures on world literature moretti, franco new left. Yet while so many critics knows morettis name, it can be difficult to pin down exactly what hes saying.
Nearly two hundred years ago, goethe announced the imminence of a world literature. Without any single magnum opus to his name, morettis points are instead scattered across a score of articles and a handful of short books. Distant reading by franco moretti, 9781781680841, download free ebooks, download free pdf epub ebook. His procedure here bears clear affinities to erich auerbachs famous exemplary method outlined in the philology of world literature, which emphasizes a point of departure, an intuition, an insight, a lever that can order and. Morettis interest in the big questions of literary evolution, literary form and narrative universals was shared and significantly influenced by early twentiethcentury russian. He graduated in modern literatures from the university of rome in 1972. Morettis first two chapters, modern european literature. An attempt to discover the laws of literature the new yorker. Alberto piazza is professor human genetics at the medical school of turin university.
Jul 18, 2015 franco moretti at the institute for world literature, university of lisbon. It is no wonder that, looking for a title for a collection of essays, moretti or his publisher chose that appealing, programmatic and polemical term. From the evolutionary model of modern european literature, through the geocultural insights of conjectures of world literature and planet hollywood. He is a coauthor of the history and geography of human genes.
67 1331 1459 430 806 229 1476 196 637 1338 957 496 1254 1043 860 617 1427 194 1142 945 143 85 602 1461 330 440 563 998 835 1353 643 689 521 586 1186 112