Counting and seeing the social action of literary form: Franco Moretti and the sociology of literature

Cultural Sociology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 277-297

  Bennett, Tony ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Device; Evolution; Form; Formalism; Genre; Moretti; Sociology of literature; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249180198     PISSN: 17499755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1749975509105535     Document Type: Article

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