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Book SynopsisBringing together scholars who have critically followed New Formalism's journey through time, space, and learning environment, this collection of essays both solidifies and consolidates New Formalism as a burgeoning field of literary criticism and explicates its potential as a varied but viable methodology of contemporary critical theory.
Trade Review"Following on several prominent interventions announcing the arrival of a New Formalism, this collection takes a catholic view of that movement, emphasizing an aesthetic turn, a return to formalism that cooperates with historical and contextual analysis. It recognizes craft, acknowledging the experience of practitioners. It will be widely assigned and debated." - Suzanne Keen, Washington and Lee University, USA
"This exciting collection of essays and manifesti reminds us of the "form" behind "formalism": that it engages society and history, is realized through process, and depends on transactions across the literary work. New Formalisms and Literary Theory will make you think again about both concepts." - Roland Greene, Stanford University, USA
Table of Contents Foreword; Heather Dubrow Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 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 Bibliography Index
