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| | FRANCO MORETTI - GRAPHS, MAPS, TREES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Literature, the old territory; but within it, a shift from the close reading of individual texts to the construction of abstract models. |
 | | The models are drawn from three disciplines—quantitative history, geography and evolutionary theory: graphs, maps and trees—with which literary criticism has had little or no interaction; but which have many things to teach us, and may change the way we work. |
 | | [13] A first look at French literature from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century suggests that most of its narrative genres have a similar 30-year span: pastoral and heroic novels, the nouvelle historique, romans galants and contes philosophiques, sentimental novels, the Bildungsroman, the roman gai, the two main phases (‘heroic’ and ‘sentimental’) of the roman-feuilleton. |
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