New Formalist Criticism
Title | New Formalist Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | F. Bogel |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013-11-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781137362582 |
New Formalist Criticism defines and theorizes a mode of formalist criticism that is theoretically compatible with current thinking about literature and theory. New formalism anticipates a move in literary studies back towards the text and, in so doing, establishes itself as one of the most exciting areas of contemporary critical theory.
New Formalist Criticism
Title | New Formalist Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | F. Bogel |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2013-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781349472727 |
New Formalist Criticism defines and theorizes a mode of formalist criticism that is theoretically compatible with current thinking about literature and theory. New formalism anticipates a move in literary studies back towards the text and, in so doing, establishes itself as one of the most exciting areas of contemporary critical theory.
Russian Formalist Criticism
Title | Russian Formalist Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | Lee T. Lemon |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 1965-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780803254602 |
"Some of the most important literary theory of this century."--College English Russian formalists emerged from the Russian Revolution with ideas about the independence of literature. They enjoyed that independence until Stalin shut them down. By then they had produced essays that remain among the best defenses ever written for both literature and its theory. Included here are four essays representing key points in the formalists' short history. Victor Scklovsky's pathbreaking "Art as Technique" (1917) vindicates disorder in literary style. His 1921 essay on Tristram Shandy makes that eccentric novel the centerpiece for a theory of narrative. A section from Tomashevsky's "Thematics" (1925) inventories the elements of stories. In "The Theory of the 'Formal Method'" (1927) Boris Eichenbaum defends Russian formalism from many attacks. An able champion, he describes formalism's evolution, notes its major workers and works, clears away decayed axioms, and rescues literature from "primitive historicism" and other dangers. These essays set a course for literary studies that led to Prague structuralism, French semiotics, and postmodern poetics. Russian Formalist Criticism has been honored as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year by the American Library Association.
New Formalist Criticism
Title | New Formalist Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | F. Bogel |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2013-11-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1137362596 |
New Formalist Criticism defines and theorizes a mode of formalist criticism that is theoretically compatible with current thinking about literature and theory. New formalism anticipates a move in literary studies back towards the text and, in so doing, establishes itself as one of the most exciting areas of contemporary critical theory.
The New Criticism
Title | The New Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | John Crowe Ransom |
Publisher | Praeger |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780837190792 |
Speculative Formalism
Title | Speculative Formalism PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Eyers |
Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 2017-03-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0810134322 |
Speculative Formalism engages decisively in recent debates in the literary humanities around form and formalism, making the case for a new, nonmimetic and antihistoricist theory of literary reference. Where formalism has often been accused of sealing texts within themselves, Eyers demonstrates instead how a renewed, speculative formalism can illuminate the particular ways in which literature actively opens onto history, politics, and nature, in a connective movement that puts formal impasses to creative use. Through a combination of philosophical reflection and close rhetorical readings, Eyers explores the possibilities and limits of deconstructive approaches to the literary, the impact of the “digital humanities” on theory, and the prospects for a formalist approach to “world literature.” The book includes sustained close readings of Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Yeats, and Wallace Stevens, as well as Alain Badiou, Paul de Man, and Fredric Jameson.
After the New Criticism
Title | After the New Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Lentricchia |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780226471983 |
This work is the first history and evaluation of contemporary American critical theory within its European philosophical contexts. In the first part, Frank Lentricchia analyzes the impact on our critical thought of Frye, Stevens, Kermode, Sartre, Poulet, Heidegger, Sussure, Barthes, Lévi-Strauss, Derrida, and Foucault, among other, less central figures. In a second part, Lentricchia turns to four exemplary theorists on the American scene—Murray Krieger, E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Paul de Man, and Harold Bloom—and an analysis of their careers within the lineage established in part one. Lentricchia's critical intention is in evidence in his sustained attack on the more or less hidden formalist premises inherited from the New Critical fathers. Even in the name of historical consciousness, he contends, contemporary theorists have often cut literature off from social and temporal processes. By so doing he believes that they have deprived literature of its relevant values and turned the teaching of both literature and theory into a rarefied activity. All along the way, with the help of such diverse thinkers as Saussure, Barthes, Foucault, Derrida, and Bloom, Lentricchia indicates a strategy by which future critical theorists may resist the mandarin attitudes of their fathers.