Modern Epic

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Author: Franco Moretti

ISBN-10: 1859840698

ISBN-13: 9781859840696

Category: Drama - Literary Criticism

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AcknowledgementsIntroductionPt. 1Faust and the Nineteenth Century'I want a hero...''In the beginning was the Deed'Literary evolution. IRhetoric of innocence. I'He sees visions of giant undertakings . . .'An inherited formNon-contemporaneity. I'So many little independent worlds'World texts. I'An incredible musical pandemonium'Polyphony in America. IPolyphony in America. II'With all the certainty of a mechanical process'Literary evolution. IIAllegory and modernity. I'You, I think, should know us all'The sign run amokAllegory and modernity. II'But infinite forms do not exist . . .'Transition: The Nibelung's Ring'Drink first, hero, so that distant things don't escape you'Monumental dilettantismTwofold mythArt of transitionComplexity. IPt. IIUlysses and the Twentieth CenturyThe Ladies' ParadiseStream of consciousnessSociology of absentmindednessThe great PerhapsEpiphany, madeleine, LeitmotivWorld texts. IIFree associationExcursus: Stream of consciousness - evolution of a techniqueThe other UlyssesLiterary evolution. IIILiberation of the deviceJoyce/KafkaSoul and precisionComplexity. IICountermodernismCompromiseEpilogue: One Hundred Years of SolitudeMagical realismFrom Lubeck to MacondoNon-contemporaneity. IIRhetoric of innocence. IIIndex