New Formalist Criticism

Theory and Practice
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-47272-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3164 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bogel, F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Method, Meaning, Formalism 2. Old and New Formalisms 3. New Formalist Interpretation 4. Textual Infatuation, True Infatuation Coda: New Formalisms Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fredric V. Bogel has taught in the Cornell University English Department since the 1980s, offering courses in eighteenth-century literature, critical theory, and the analysis of poetry. His research focuses on formalist criticism, modern critical theory, eighteenth-century literature, and theory of satire. He is currently writing on materialist and volitional accounts of affective and aesthetic experience in eighteenth-century literature, philosophy, aesthetics, and acting theory.