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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沒看過火綫，所以最後的例子不太熟悉。整體思想感覺非常朗西埃，但是格局也非常狹小，workshop時作者解釋瞭為什麼，為瞭更多的人能加入討論，這大概也是一種桎梏。workshop看到作者為瞭捍衛自己的書不停迴應博士們的提問，真的感覺壓力好大好緊張。北美學生的訓練也由此可見一斑瞭。
评分Bold, ambitious, sometimes counterintuitive, and soooooo readable. 但是總感覺作者提齣的這個框架有點太萬金油瞭，仿佛什麼都能往框裏裝並得齣一個很predictable的結論。需要時間和更多實例來檢驗的理論宏圖。
评分沒看過火綫，所以最後的例子不太熟悉。整體思想感覺非常朗西埃，但是格局也非常狹小，workshop時作者解釋瞭為什麼，為瞭更多的人能加入討論，這大概也是一種桎梏。workshop看到作者為瞭捍衛自己的書不停迴應博士們的提問，真的感覺壓力好大好緊張。北美學生的訓練也由此可見一斑瞭。
评分Bold, ambitious, sometimes counterintuitive, and soooooo readable. 但是總感覺作者提齣的這個框架有點太萬金油瞭，仿佛什麼都能往框裏裝並得齣一個很predictable的結論。需要時間和更多實例來檢驗的理論宏圖。 @2019-12-01 09:20:50
评分沒看過火綫，所以最後的例子不太熟悉。整體思想感覺非常朗西埃，但是格局也非常狹小，workshop時作者解釋瞭為什麼，為瞭更多的人能加入討論，這大概也是一種桎梏。workshop看到作者為瞭捍衛自己的書不停迴應博士們的提問，真的感覺壓力好大好緊張。北美學生的訓練也由此可見一斑瞭。
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