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Franco Moretti

Franco Moretti
Franco Moretti is the author of many books, including Graphs, Maps, Trees; The Bourgeois; and Distant Reading, winner of the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He is professor emeritus at Stanford, where he founded the Center for the Study of the Novel and the Literary Lab; writes regularly for New Left Review; and is a Permanent Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.


Western vs. Noir: How Two Genres Shaped Postwar American Culture

Franco Moretti on Opposing Big-Screen Views of the Country
March 25, 2019  By Franco Moretti
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