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Signs Taken for Wonders : Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms Condition:Good and the constant threat ofShakespearean tragedy and Dracula , Sherlock Holmes and Ulysses , Frankenstei and The Waste Land all are celebrated wonders of modern literature, whether in its mandarin or popular form. However, it is the fact that these texts are so central to our contemporary notion of literature that sometimes hinders our ability to understand them. Franco Moretti applies himself to this problem by drawing skillfully on structuralist, sociological and psycho