LEADER 04581cam 2200673 i 4500001 on1089920777 003 OCoLC 005 20210503110652.0 008 190422t20192019ilua b 001 0 eng c 010 2019019113 015 GBB9H3658 |2bnb 016 7 019583325 |2Uk 019 1089861033 020 9780226653204 |q(hbk. ; |qalk. paper) 020 022665320X |q(hbk. ; |qalk. paper) 020 9780226653341 |q(pbk. ; |qalk. paper) 020 022665334X |q(pbk. ; |qalk. paper) 020 |z9780226653488 |q(e-book) 024 8 40029619566 029 1 UKMGB |b019583325 029 1 CHVBK |b575773723 029 1 CHDSB |b007131859 035 (Sirsi) o1089920777 035 (OCoLC)1089920777 |z(OCoLC)1089861033 040 ICU/DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dOCLCQ |dUKMGB |dERASA |dOCLCA |dNDD |dEAU |dORZ |dYUS |dL2U |dCHVBK |dOCLCO |dERE |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 049 EREE 050 00 PN98.F6 |bK675 2019 082 00 801/.95 |223 100 1 Kornbluh, Anna, |eauthor. |=^A1254439 245 14 The order of forms : |brealism, formalism, and social space / |cAnna Kornbluh. 264 1 Chicago ;London : |bThe University of Chicago Press, |c2019. 264 4 |c©2019 300 xii, 217 pages : |billustrations ; |c23 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-206) and index. 505 0 Introduction: the order of forms: mathematic, aesthetic, and political formalisms -- The realist blueprint: for a formalist theory of literary realism -- The set theory of Wuthering heights: realism, antagonism, and the infinities of social space -- The limits of Bleak house -- Symbolic logic on the social plane of Alice's Adventures in wonderland -- Obscure forms: the social geometry of Jude the obscure -- States of psychoanalysis: formalization and the space of the political -- Conclusion: sustaining forms. 520 8 In literary studies today, debates about the purpose of literary criticism and about the place of formalism within it continue to simmer across periods and approaches. Anna Kornbluh contributes to--and substantially shifts--that conversation in The Order of Forms by offering an exciting new category, political formalism, which she articulates through the co-emergence of aesthetic and mathematical formalisms in the nineteenth century. Within this framework, criticism can be understood as more affirmative and constructive, articulating commitments to aesthetic expression and social collectivity. Kornbluh offers a powerful argument that political formalism, by valuing forms of sociability like the city and the state in and of themselves, provides a better understanding of literary form and its political possibilities than approaches that view form as a constraint. To make this argument, she takes up the case of literary realism, showing how novels by Dickens, Bront , Hardy, and Carroll engage mathematical formalism as part of their political imagining. Realism, she shows, is best understood as an exercise in social modeling--more like formalist mathematics than social documentation. By modeling society, the realist novel focuses on what it considers the most elementary features of social relations and generates unique political insights. Proposing both this new theory of realism and the idea of political formalism, this inspired, eye-opening book will have far-reaching implications in literary studies. 650 0 Formalism (Literary analysis) |=^A97272 650 0 Criticism. |=^A17343 650 7 17.80 literary theory: general. |0(NL-LeOCL)077599195 |2bcl 650 7 Criticism. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00883735 650 7 Formalism (Literary analysis) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00932941 650 7 Formalismus |gLiteratur. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4154994-6 650 7 Literaturtheorie. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4036031-3 650 7 Realismus. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4048680-1 776 08 |iebook version : |z9780226653488 938 Erasmus Boekhandel |bERAA |nNTS0000326049 938 Brodart |bBROD |n124358780 938 Brodart |bBROD |n124358802 938 YBP Library Services |bYANK |n16098929 938 YBP Library Services |bYANK |n16098930 949 PN98.F6 K675 2019 |hJOYNER48 |ojssb |i30372017381457 994 C0 |bERE 596 1 998 5346554