Franco MorettiExperimental Criticism
Franco Moretti and Literature
Herausgeber: De Cristofaro, Francesco; Ercolino, Stefano
Francesco de Cristofaro teaches comparative literature at the University of Naples Federico II. He is the author of Zoo di romanzi (Zoo of Novels), Letterature comparate (Comparative Literature) and La palla al balzo (Leaping at the Chance). Stefano Ercolino teaches literary theory and comparative literature at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. His books include The Maximalist Novel, The Novel-Essay and, with Massimo Fusillo, Negative Empathy in Literature and the Arts (forthcoming).
Criticism as Experiment
Francesco de Cristofaro and Stefano Ercolino
I Towards an Intellectual History
1. Unrestrained Individuation
Stefano Ercolino
2. Discourse on Method
Francesco de Cristoforo
3. The New Anatomy Table
Giuseppe Episcopo
II Experimental Criticism
4. Essayism: Franco Moretti
Guido Mazzoni
5. Morphology in America: Evolutionary Theory as an Experiment in Radical
Sociology
Andrea Miconi
6. Towards a More Rational Literary History
Patricia McManus
7. Franco Moretti and the Sociology of Literature: Bridging Distant/Close
Reading and Field Theory
Gisèle Sapiro
8. The Moon and the Tides: Franco Moretti as Theorist of Literature
Federico Bertoni
9. Serious Experiments
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
10. Can the Digital Humanities Kill Their Own Theories?
Jérôme David
11. The Roads to Rome: Literary Studies, Hermeneutics, Quantification
Franco Moretti
III On the Novel
12. The Serious and the Tragic: Balzachian and Flaubertian Notes
Francesco Fiorentino
13. The Novel, History, Politics: Franco Moretti and the Nineteenth-Century
European Novel
Françoise Lavocat
14. The Novel According to Franco Moretti
Enrica Villari
15. Useless Masterpiece: Notes on Lukács’s Theory of the Novel
Franco Moretti
Time Passes
Franco Moretti
Bibliography
About the Authors
