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Dangerous Truths and Criminal Passions
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This book challenges several traditional assumptions about the development of the French novel, notably that the novel is a bourgeois art form that rose and flo
The Absurd Hero in American Fiction
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When The Absurd Hero in American Fiction was first released in 1966, Granville Hicks praised it in a lead article for the Saturday Review as a sensitive and def
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Nearly as global in its ambition and sweep as its subject, Franco Moretti's The Novel is a watershed event in the understanding of the first truly planetary lit
The Hero in Contemporary American Fiction
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This book sets out to write nothing short of a new theory of the heroic for today's world. It delves into the "why" of the hero as a natural companion piece to