Diffracted Waves and World Literature.

An essay is presented on metaphorical structures through which cultural and literary forms and traditions that are thought as media and waves. It cites Franco Moretti who notes that the metaphor of the wave has done powerful conceptual and theoretical work across various branches of the humanities a...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Publicado en:Parallax Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 245 - 258
Autor principal: Edmond, Jacob
Formato: Essay
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul-Sep2014
Materias:
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
Descripción
Sumario:An essay is presented on metaphorical structures through which cultural and literary forms and traditions that are thought as media and waves. It cites Franco Moretti who notes that the metaphor of the wave has done powerful conceptual and theoretical work across various branches of the humanities and sciences. Moretti mentions linguistics and archaeology, but its most obvious uses have arguably been in physics, where wave is hardly perceived as a metaphor at all.