Susan Buck-Morss: The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and The Frankfurt Institute (1977-) [English, Spanish]
Filed under book | Tags: · 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, aesthetics, art, biography, critical theory, dialectic, Frankfurt school, history, literary criticism, logic, marxism, music, negative dialectics, philosophy, theory, truth
Publisher The Free Press, a division of Macmillan Publishing, New York, 1977
ISBN 0029049105
352 pages
review (Gillian Rose, History and Theory)
google books (EN)
Susan Buck-Morss at Monoskop wiki
The Origin of Negative Dialectics (English, 1977)
Origen de la dialéctica negativa (Spanish, trans. Nora Rabotnikof Maskivker, 1981, no OCR)
Jonathan Goodwin, John Holbo (eds.): Reading Graphs, Maps, and Trees: Responses to Franco Moretti (2011)
Filed under book | Tags: · history of literature, literary criticism, literary theory, literature, reading
Franco Moretti’s Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History is one of the most provocative recent works of literary history. The present volume collects generalist and specialist, academic and nonacademic responses by statisticians, philosophers, historians, literary scholars and others. And Moretti’s responses to these responses. Originally written as contributions to an online book event hosted at The Valve, and edited for this volume, these essays explore, extend and criticize many aspects of Franco Moretti’s work. They will be of interest to anyone interested in Moretti’s brand of “distant reading”; or in the prospects for quantitative approaches to literary style and genre; or recent interdisciplinary work in the humanities generally.
Contributors: Bill Benzon, Tim Burke, Jenny Davidson, Ray Davis, Jonathan Goodwin, Eric Hayot, John Holbo, Steven Berlin Johnson, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Sean McCann, Franco Moretti, Adam Roberts, Cosma Shalizi.
Publisher Parlor Press, 2011
Glassbead Books
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
ISBN 1602352054, 9781602352056
256 pages
Franco Moretti: Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models For A Literary History (2005)
Filed under book | Tags: · geography, history of literature, literary criticism, literary theory, literature, reading
The “great iconoclast of literary criticism” reinvents the study of the novel.
In this groundbreaking book, Franco Moretti argues that literature scholars should stop reading books and start counting, graphing, and mapping them instead. In place of the traditionally selective literary canon of a few hundred texts, Moretti offers charts, maps and time lines, developing the idea of “distant reading” into a full-blown experiment in literary historiography, in which the canon disappears into the larger literary system. Charting entire genres—the epistolary, the gothic, and the historical novel—as well as the literary output of countries such as Japan, Italy, Spain, and Nigeria, he shows how literary history looks significantly different from what is commonly supposed and how the concept of aesthetic form can be radically redefined.
Afterword by Alberto Piazza
Publisher Verso, 2005
ISBN 1844670260, 9781844670260
119 pages
a series of short essays and comments on the book (The Valve)
review (Elif Batuman, n+1)
review (Kathryn Schulz, The New York Times Sunday Book Review)