Speculative Formalism: Literature, Theory, and the Critical Present by Tom Eyers (Review)Ben Streeter
(1) I say "resuscitate" because formalism has not been in favor for several decades. Why has aesthetic formalism fallen on hard times? A formalism for computation theory implicitly defines each and every computational state by the totality of its computational relations (e.g., relations of ...
(philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms ...
4.(Philosophy) (in Marxist criticism) excessive concern with artistic technique at the expense of social values, etc 5.(Philosophy) the philosophical theory that a mathematical statement has no meaning but that its symbols, regarded as physical objects, exhibit a structure that has useful applicatio...
The Idea of Spatial Form contains the classic essay that introduced the concept of "spatial form" into literary discussion in 1945, and has since been accepted as one of the cornerstones for a theory of modern literature. It is here repr... J Frank 被引量: 163发表: 1991年 Histories of ...
The philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications. New Search Wildcard: Use * as placeholder for 0 or more Chinese characters or pinyin syllables Full Search For...
Although the Formalists based their assumptions partly on the linguistic theory of Ferdinand de Saussure and partly onSymbolist notions concerning the autonomy of the text and the discontinuity between literary and other uses of language, the Formalists sought to make their critical discourse more obj...
2) ancient Chinese formalist critical theory 中国古代形式主义文论 1. As a special mode of Chinese classical critical theory,ancient Chinese formalist critical theory shares a number of similarities with 20th century Western formalist critical theory. 作为中国古典文论的特殊样态,中国古代形式主义文论与...
It has become a commonplace of literary study that to study literature is to study l anguage, yet prior to the formalist movements of the early twentieth century – Russian Formalism and American New Criticism – the study of literature was concerned with everything about literature except language...
I mean here the reemergence, on a critical scene dominated since the alleged death of "high theory" by historicism, of a self-conscious formalism, a "new formalism" to borrow the term employed by Marjorie Levinson in her 2007 PMLA review—"What Is New Formalism?"—which looks back to the...