# Modern Epic

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- Book: [Modern Epic](https://www.bookquiver.com/franco-moretti/modern-epic) ([Modern Epic.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/franco-moretti/modern-epic.md))
- Authors: [Franco Moretti](https://www.bookquiver.com/franco-moretti), [Quintin Hoare](https://www.bookquiver.com/quintin-hoare)
- Publisher: verso
- ISBN: 978-18-5984-069-6
- Pages: 272
- Published: 1996-04-17
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

“Take Faust, what is it? A ‘tragedy’, as its author states? A great philosophical tale? A collection of lyrical insights? Who can say. How about Moby-Dick? Encyclopedia, novel or romance?...