New Formalisms and Literary Theory

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-43636-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3746 g

Bringing 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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Theile, V.

Tredennick, L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Harry Berger, Jr., University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

Scott Black, University of Utah, USA

Fredric V. Bogel, Cornell University, USA
Bartholomew Brinkman, Framingham State University, USA

Edward Brunner, Southern Illinois University, USA
Heather Dubrow, Fordham University, USA

Group Phi, association of scholars, USA
Nora Johnson, Swarthmore College, USA

Karin Kukkonen, St. John's College, Oxford University, UK

Corey McEleney, Fordham University, USA

Laura McGrane, Haverford College, USA

Steve Newman, Temple University, USA

Cynthia Nichols, North Dakota State University, USA

Kelcey Parker, Indiana University South Bend, USA
Kristen Poole, University of Delaware, USA

Katherine Rowe, Bryn Mawr, USA

Jaqueline Wernimont, Scripps College, USA
Julian Yates, University of Delaware, USA