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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Notice
I. Teaching in America
Stanford, Salerno
Remedial
Hopscotch
Form against form
Petite phrase
Diagram of forces
Autonomous factor
Belle époque
A literature for America
Clarity
Paragraphs
Wonder and critique
Shopping for classes
II. Walt Whitman or Charles Baudelaire?
Disenchantment
Nobody wants poetry now
Omnivorous lines
Free verse
American space
Fait divers
Ghosts
Dissonance
Simplicity
III. Prose and History in “Big Two-Hearted River”
Iceberg
Men had grown silent
Fourteen words
Continuous present
Know-how
Words and things
Nothing could touch him
IV. Day and Night: On the Counterpoint of Western and Film Noir
Day and night
West
Wagon train
Seven
Town tamer
Legitimate use of physical force
Shadows
Magic Mirror Maze
The Third
The prose of the world
Mean what?
Hegemony
V. Causality in Death of a Salesman
American tragedy
Attention must be paid
White collar
The capital of Alabama
Gegeneinander
As the car speeds off
Miller vs. Miller
Boston
VI. Amsterdam, New Amsterdam
The storyteller
Girl asleep, woman reading a letter
Automat
Room and window
Nothing, it seemed, could be done
Time passes
Assembly line
August 4, 1962
Pseudo-individuality
As long as it’s black
Notes
Notes 1
Notes 2
Notes 3
Notes 4
Notes 5
Notes 6
Illustration Credits
Also by Franco Moretti
A Note About the Author
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