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...
| Published in: | Parallax Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 245 - 258 |
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| Format: | Essay |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul-Sep2014
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| Summary: | 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. |
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