Overview View 1 Edition Details Reviews Lists Related Books Publish Date. He is the author of Signs Taken for Wonders, The Way of the World and Modern Epic, all from Verso. Signs Taken for Wonders by Franco Moretti, March 1, 1988, Verso Books edition, Paperback - 2Rev Ed edition. About the Author: Franco Moretti teaches English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. In the process, Moretti offers us compelling accounts of various literary genres, explores the relationships between high and mass culture in this century, and considers the relevance of tragic, Romantic and Darwinian views of the world. Susan Fischer, David Forgacs, and David Miller, London: New Left Books 1983. Franco Moretti applies himself to this problem by drawing skillfully on structuralist, sociological and psycho-analytic modes of enquity in order to read these texts as literary systems which are tokens of wider cultural and political realities. 3 Franco Moretti: Signs Taken for Wonders: Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms, trans. However, it is the fact that these texts are so central to our contemporary notion of literature that sometimes hinders our ability to understand them. Shakespearean tragedy and Dracula, Sherlock Holmes and Ulysses, Frankenstei and The Waste Land-all are celebrated "wonders" of modern literature, whether in its mandarin or popular form.
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