Signs Taken for Wonders: Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9780860912101

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Signs Taken for Wonders 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. 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. Franco Moretti applies himself to this problem by"d... Full description