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Modern Epic : The World System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez Condition:Well Read Maybe we can’t predict theTake 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? Or even a singular medley, as one anonymous 1851 review put it? It is no longer a novel, T. S. Eliot said of Ulysses . But if not novels, then what are they?Literary history has long been puzzled by how to classify and treat these aesthetic monuments. In this highly