New Formalisms and Literary Theory

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. New Formalism(s): A Prologue

      • Verena Theile

      Pages 3-26

3. Theory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. Toward a New Formalism: The Intrinsic and Related Problems in Criticism and Theory

      • Fredric V. Bogel

      Pages 29-53

   3. Doing Genre

      • Group Phi

      Pages 54-68

4. Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. Inventing an Ancestor: The Scholar-Poet and the Sonnet

      • Edward Brunner

      Pages 71-95

   3. From Close Reading to Cross-Reading: Sacco-Vanzetti Poetry and the Politics of New Formalism

      • Bartholomew Brinkman

      Pages 96-115

   4. Re-Reading for Forms in Sir Philip Sidney’s Defence of Poesy

      • Corey McEleney, Jacqueline Wernimont

      Pages 116-139

   5. Collecting Body Parts in Leonardo’s Cave: Vasari’s Lives and the Erotics of Obscene Connoisseurship

      • Harry Berger Jr

      Pages 140-158

   6. Form as a Pattern of Thinking: Cognitive Poetics and New Formalism

      • Karin Kukkonen

      Pages 159-176

5. Pedagogy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177

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   2. Reading Like a Writer: A Creative Writer’s Approach to New Formalism

      • Kelcey Parker

      Pages 179-196

   3. Punk Bodies, Jorie Graham, and the Draft Itself: Notes Toward a Lyric Formalism

      • Cynthia Nichols

      Pages 197-222

   4. ‘One Another’s Hermitage’: New Formalist Pedagogy

      • Linda Tredennick

      Pages 223-241

6. Back Matter

   Pages 242-268

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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.

• Close reading
• critical theory
• literary theory
• poetry
• space
• time

"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

• North Dakota State University, USA

  Verena Theile

• Gonzaga University, USA

  Linda Tredennick

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

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