New formalisms and literary theory / edited by Verena Theile, Assistant Professor of English, North Dakota State University, USA and Linda Tredennick, Associate Professor of English, Gonzaga University, USA.

Other author Theile, Verena, editor.
Other author Tredennick, Linda, editor.
Format Book
PublicationHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Descriptionxxiii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Contents Part I: Introduction -- 1. New Formalism(s): a prologue / Verena Theile -- PART II: Theory -- 2. Toward a New Formalism: the intrinsic and related problems in criticism and theory / Fredric V. Bogel -- 3. Doing genre / Group Phi -- Part III: Practice -- 4. Inventing an ancestor: the scholar-poet and the sonnet / Edward Brunner -- 5. From close reading to cross-reading: Sacco-Vanzetti poetry and the politics of New Formalism / Bartholomew Brinkman -- 6. Re-reading for forms in Sir Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesy / Corey McEleney and Jacqueline Wernimont -- 7. Collecting body parts in Leonardo's cave: Vasari's Lives and the erotics of obscene connoisseurship / Harry Berger Jr -- 8. Form as a pattern of thinking: Cognitive poetics and New Formalism / Karin Kukkonen -- Part IV: Pedagogy -- 9. Reading like a writer: a creative writer's approach to New Formalism / Kelcey Parker -- 10. Punk bodies, Jorie Graham, and the draft Itself: notes toward a lyric Formalism / Cynthia Nichols -- 10. 'One another's hermitage': New Formalist pedagogy / Linda Tredennick.
Abstract "New Formalisms and Literary Theory" examines the political motivations of a return to formalism. Together with our contributors, we want to propose and challenge the conception of New Formalism as an extension of contextual readings and as a 'mere' return to aesthetic readings. The essays gathered here encourage reflection upon New Formalism's points of intersection with other theoretical approaches and demand a reinstatement of form as the critic's central focus, form, that is, as it reflects a culture's creative imagination and historicizes itself within and against a politically charged background.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 242-255) and index.
LCCN 2012286419
ISBN9781137010483 (hardback)
ISBN1137010487 (hardback)

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