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Informationen zum Autor Fredric V. Bogel has taught in the Cornell University English Department since the 1980s, offering courses in eighteenth-century literature, critical theory, and the analysis of poetry. His research focuses on formalist criticism, modern critical theory, eighteenth-century literature, and theory of satire. He is currently writing on materialist and volitional accounts of affective and aesthetic experience in eighteenth-century literature, philosophy, aesthetics, and acting theory. Klappentext New Formalist Criticism defines and theorizes a mode of formalist criticism that is theoretically compatible with current thinking about literature and theory. New formalism anticipates a move in literary studies back towards the text and, in so doing, establishes itself as one of the most exciting areas of contemporary critical theory. Zusammenfassung New Formalist Criticism defines and theorizes a mode of formalist criticism that is theoretically compatible with current thinking about literature and theory. New formalism anticipates a move in literary studies back towards the text and! in so doing! establishes itself as one of the most exciting areas of contemporary critical theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Method, Meaning, Formalism 2. Old and New Formalisms 3. New Formalist Interpretation 4. Textual Infatuation, True Infatuation Coda: New Formalisms Bibliography Index
