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Speculative Formalism : Literature, Theory, and the Critical Present / Tom Eyers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eyers, Tom, author.
- Series:
- Diaeresis.
- Diaeresis
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Formalism (Literature).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Clearing the ground : new digital positivisms, the fate of literary theory, and the stakes of a "speculative formalism"
- Francis Ponge, Jean Cavailles, and the vexed relation between word and world
- Alain Badiou, Wallace Stevens, and the paradoxical productivity of poetic form
- Paul de Man's poetic materialism
- Language poetry, psychoanalysis, and the formal negotiation of history and time.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-3432-2
- OCLC:
- 970384678
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