Reading for form / edited by Susan J. Wolfson and Marshall Brown.

"A Robert Heilman book."

"Originally published in 2000 as a special issue of the Modern language quarterly"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction: reading for form / Susan J. Wolfson -- Form and contentment / Ellen Rooney -- Hating and loving aesthetic formalism: some reasons / Virgil Nemoianu -- Medieval forma: the logic of the work / D. Vance Smith -- Guess who's coming to dinner? Reinterpreting formalism and the country house poem / Heather Dubrow -- "Among unequals, what society": Paradise lost and the forms of intimacy / Ronald Levao -- Formalism and history: binarism and the anglophone couplet / J. Paul Hunter.

The signature and the initial in Zukofsky's "A" / Susan Stewart -- "Sound scraps, vision scraps": Paul Celan's poetic practice / Marjorie Perloff -- Everybody hates Kant: Blakean formalism and the symmetries of Laura Moriarty / Robert Kaufman -- Jane Austen, Emma, and the impact of form / Frances Ferguson -- The foreign offices of British fiction / Garrett Stewart -- The slaughterhouse of literature / Franco Moretti -- Formalism and time / Catherine Gallagher.

English.

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