Forms offers a powerful new answer to one of the most pressing problems facing literary, critical, and cultural studies today--how to connect form to political, social, and historical context. Caroline Levine argues that forms organize not only works of art but also political life--and our attempts to know both art and politics. Inescapable and frequently troubling, forms shape every aspect of our experience. But forms don't impose their order in any simple way. Multiple shapes, patterns, and arrangements, overlapping and colliding, generate complex and unpredictable social landscapes that challenge and unsettle conventional analytic models in literary and cultural studies.
Borrowing the concept of "affordances" from design theory, this book investigates the specific ways that four major forms--wholes, rhythms, hierarchies, and networks--have structured culture, politics, and scholarly knowledge across periods, and it proposes exciting new ways of linking formalism to historicism and literature to politics. Levine rereads both formalist and antiformalist theorists, including Cleanth Brooks, Michel Foucault, Jacques Rancière, Mary Poovey, and Judith Butler, and she offers engaging accounts of a wide range of objects, from medieval convents and modern theme parks to Sophocles's Antigone and the television series The Wire.
The result is a radically new way of thinking about form for the next generation and essential reading for scholars and students across the humanities who must wrestle with the problem of form and context.
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Bold, ambitious, sometimes counterintuitive, and soooooo readable. 但是总感觉作者提出的这个框架有点太万金油了，仿佛什么都能往框里装并得出一个很predictable的结论。需要时间和更多实例来检验的理论宏图。 @2019-12-01 09:20:50
评分选取的文本跨度极大（从《安提戈涅》到《火线》），以朗西埃为理论前设（形式即政治，政治即形式，拒绝区分社会和美学的registers）对历史主义进行反拨，关注不同形式如何相遇、互动，并由此定位文学及文学批评自身的政治。去年PMLA有一期做了关于这本书的dossier。
评分Bold, ambitious, sometimes counterintuitive, and soooooo readable. 但是总感觉作者提出的这个框架有点太万金油了，仿佛什么都能往框里装并得出一个很predictable的结论。需要时间和更多实例来检验的理论宏图。 @2019-12-01 09:20:50
评分Bold, ambitious, sometimes counterintuitive, and soooooo readable. 但是总感觉作者提出的这个框架有点太万金油了，仿佛什么都能往框里装并得出一个很predictable的结论。需要时间和更多实例来检验的理论宏图。 @2019-12-01 09:20:50
评分Bold, ambitious, sometimes counterintuitive, and soooooo readable. 但是总感觉作者提出的这个框架有点太万金油了，仿佛什么都能往框里装并得出一个很predictable的结论。需要时间和更多实例来检验的理论宏图。
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