Speculative Formalism (eBook)

Literature, Theory, and the Critical Present

Tom Eyers (Autor)

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2017
256 Seiten
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-3432-4 (ISBN)

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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 "e;digital humanities"e; on theory, and the prospects for a formalist approach to "e;world literature."e; The book includes sustained close readings of Baudelaire, Mallarme, Yeats, and Wallace Stevens, as well as Alain Badiou, Paul de Man, and Fredric Jameson.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.3.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-8101-3432-2 / 0810134322
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-3432-4 / 9780810134324