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Far Country: Scenes from American Culture

Full title: Far Country: Scenes from American Culture
ISBN: 9780374272708
ISBN 10: 0374272700
Authors: Moretti, Franco
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Edition: Illustrated
Num. pages: 144
Binding: Hardcover
Language: en
Published on: 2019

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Synopsis

Moretti's Thoughts On Teaching Literature In American Universities, With Excursions Not Just On Novels And Plays But Also Film, Painting, And Intellectual Life In General-- Teaching In America -- Walt Whitman Or Charles Baudelaire? -- Prose And History In Big Two-hearted River -- Day And Night : On The Counterpoint Of Western And Film Noir -- Conflict In Death Of A Salesman -- Amsterdam, New Amsterdam. Franco Moretti. Includes Bibliographical References.