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Authors: Franco Moretti, Quintin Hoare
ISBN-13: 9781859840696, ISBN-10: 1859840698
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Verso
Date Published: March 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
Pt. 1	Faust and the Nineteenth Century
	'I want a hero...'
	'In the beginning was the Deed'
	Literary evolution. I
	Rhetoric of innocence. I
	'He sees visions of giant undertakings . . .'
	An inherited form
	Non-contemporaneity. I
	'So many little independent worlds'
	World texts. I
	'An incredible musical pandemonium'
	Polyphony in America. I
	Polyphony in America. II
	'With all the certainty of a mechanical process'
	Literary evolution. II
	Allegory and modernity. I
	'You, I think, should know us all'
	The sign run amok
	Allegory and modernity. II
	'But infinite forms do not exist . . .'
	Transition: The Nibelung's Ring
	'Drink first, hero, so that distant things don't escape you'
	Monumental dilettantism
	Twofold myth
	Art of transition
	Complexity. I
Pt. II	Ulysses and the Twentieth Century
	The Ladies' Paradise
	Stream of consciousness
	Sociology of absentmindedness
	The great Perhaps
	Epiphany, madeleine, Leitmotiv
	World texts. II
	Free association
	Excursus: Stream of consciousness - evolution of a technique
	The other Ulysses
	Literary evolution. III
	Liberation of the device
	Joyce/Kafka
	Soul and precision
	Complexity. II
	Countermodernism
	Compromise
	Epilogue: One Hundred Years of Solitude
	Magical realism
	From Lubeck to Macondo
	Non-contemporaneity. II
	Rhetoric of innocence. II
	Index