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Title: Speculative Formalism Condition: New Subtitle: Literature, Theory, and the Critical Present EAN: 9780810134300 ISBN: 9780810134300 Publisher: Northwestern University Press Format: Paperback Type: Paperback Release Date: 30/03/2017 Description: Speculative Formalism proposes a new theory of form and formalization, with particular reference to literature. Tom Eyers claims that literature works not through any kind of reflection or mimesis, nor through any overrunning of literary forms by their historical contexts or determinants. Rather, he argues that literary texts, insofar as they are able to at least partially break free from their prior determinants and refigure those determinants anew, embody a formal speculative capacity that prevents their final absorption or neutralization by those prior conditions, even as the result may well be stasis or immobility rather than, say, contestation or critique. This capacity will be shown to be as enabling of a transport outward from literature’s seemingly sealed bounds of form and formalism as methods are more regularly assumed to ignore just such a transport, sealing literary language within itself. Speculative Formalism, as a theory of literary form in particular, will identify a shared incompletion across both literary language and its various outsides—materiality, history, politics, nature—that, far from preventing literature from interfacing with those outsides, rather makes such a nonmimetic reference possible, in a connective movement that puts impasses to creative use. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Item Weight: 347g Author: Tom Eyers Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality Book Series: Diaeresis Topic: Literary Criticism Item Width: 17mm Release Year: 2017 Missing Information?
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