Reflecting varieties of theory and practice in both verse and prose from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, these essays by many of America's leading literary scholars call for a reinvigorated formalism that can enrich literary studies, open productive routes of commerce with cultural studies, and propel cultural theory out of its thematic ruts. This book reprints Modern Language Quarterly's highly acclaimed special issue Reading for Form, along with new essays by Marjorie Perloff, D. Vance Smith, and Susan Stewart, and a revised introduction by Susan Wolfson. With historical case…mehr
Reflecting varieties of theory and practice in both verse and prose from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, these essays by many of America's leading literary scholars call for a reinvigorated formalism that can enrich literary studies, open productive routes of commerce with cultural studies, and propel cultural theory out of its thematic ruts. This book reprints Modern Language Quarterly's highly acclaimed special issue Reading for Form, along with new essays by Marjorie Perloff, D. Vance Smith, and Susan Stewart, and a revised introduction by Susan Wolfson. With historical case studies and insightful explorations, Reading for Form offers invaluable material for literary critics in all specializations.
Introduction: Reading for Form / Susan J. Wolfson Form and Contentment / Ellen Rooney Hating and Loving Aesthetic Formalism: Some Reasons / Virgil Nemoianu Medieval Forma: The Logic of the Work / D. Vance Smith Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Reinterpreting Formalism and the Country House Poem / Heather Dubrow "Among Unequals What Society": Paradise Lost and the Forms of Intimacy / Ronald Levao Formalism and History: Binarism and the Anglophone Couplet / J. Paul Hunter The Signature and the Initial in Zukofsky's "A" / Susan Stewart "Sound Scraps, Vision Scraps": Paul Celan's Poetic Practice / Marjorie Perloff Everybody Hates Kant: Blakean Formalism and the Symmetries of Laura Moriarty / Robert Kaufman Jane Austen, Emma, and the Impact of Form / Frances Ferguson The Foreign Offices of British Fiction / Garrett Stewart The Slaughterhouse of Literature / Franco Moretti Formalism and Time / Catherine Gallagher Contributors Index
Introduction: Reading for Form / Susan J. Wolfson Form and Contentment / Ellen Rooney Hating and Loving Aesthetic Formalism: Some Reasons / Virgil Nemoianu Medieval Forma: The Logic of the Work / D. Vance Smith Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Reinterpreting Formalism and the Country House Poem / Heather Dubrow "Among Unequals What Society": Paradise Lost and the Forms of Intimacy / Ronald Levao Formalism and History: Binarism and the Anglophone Couplet / J. Paul Hunter The Signature and the Initial in Zukofsky's "A" / Susan Stewart "Sound Scraps, Vision Scraps": Paul Celan's Poetic Practice / Marjorie Perloff Everybody Hates Kant: Blakean Formalism and the Symmetries of Laura Moriarty / Robert Kaufman Jane Austen, Emma, and the Impact of Form / Frances Ferguson The Foreign Offices of British Fiction / Garrett Stewart The Slaughterhouse of Literature / Franco Moretti Formalism and Time / Catherine Gallagher Contributors Index
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