Category Archives: Franco Moretti

Books received – Klossowski, Borges, Rancière, Lukács

Posted on July 28, 2021 by stuartelden

A few books picked up second-hand, and three by Lukács from Verso.

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The Barbican’s production of Hamlet, with Benedict Cumberbatch

Posted on September 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Last Friday I went to see the Barbican’s production of Hamlet, directed by Lyndsey Turner, and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Ciarán Hinds, Anastasia Hille, and Siân Brooke. Tickets sold out very quickly, but occasionally returns become available and a bit of … Continue reading →

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Discussion of the work of Franco Moretti in New Rambler Review

Posted on April 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Discussion of the work of Franco Moretti in New Rambler Review.

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Franco Moretti on Lukács’s Theory of the Novel – Centenary Reflections

Posted on January 27, 2015 by stuartelden

Franco Moretti on Lukács’s Theory of the Novel – Centenary Reflections, in New Left Review (open access).

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Books received

Posted on June 28, 2013 by stuartelden

The two new books by Franco Moretti; two on Palestine; the new edition of Lacoste’s classic, an interesting looking book for the Earth project, and the new issues of RIPE and Transactions.

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Franco Moretti, Distant Reading and The Bourgeois

Posted on March 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Franco Moretti’s book of essays, Distant Reading, is coming out in June. He also has a book entitled The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature coming out at the same time. The Verso blog has a post about his work here. How … Continue reading →

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Philosophometry – writing A Global History of Philosophy, to 1750

Posted on October 26, 2012 by stuartelden

Justin E.H. Smith – author of the excellent Divine Machines on Leibniz – has a very interesting post about his being commissioned to write A Global History of Philosophy, to 1750. He discusses the challenges of the project, and illustrious … Continue reading →

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Derrida, Heidegger, Moretti

Posted on July 13, 2011 by stuartelden

The project of translating Derrida’s seminars has a website. It includes dates for forthcoming volumes. A set of audio and video recordings on and by Heidegger is now available here. Includes pieces by Gadamer, Sloterdijk and Fink (thanks to Enowning for the link). … Continue reading →

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Moretti on Hamlet

Posted on May 7, 2011 by stuartelden

Franco Moretti has a piece on Hamlet in New Left Review. It’s available here, though that may require subscription, or free access in a variant form here. This is an illustration of how Moretti’s approach of not reading novels as … Continue reading →

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E-book on Franco Moretti

Posted on March 1, 2011 by stuartelden

Franco Moretti’s Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History is discussed in this new book, entitled Reading Graphs, Maps, and Trees: Responses to Franco Moretti, available as a free pdf and in other formats. Graphs, Maps, Trees is a short, … Continue reading →

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