Robert
Sheppard
I will be posting my chapter abstracts every day from now. See here for the hub post to the others:
I will be posting my chapter abstracts every day from now. See here for the hub post to the others:
Introduction:
Form, Forms and Forming
The
central methodology that poetry is the investigation of complex contemporary
realities through the means and meanings of form is introduced, via accounts of
other ‘turns’ in recent literary studies (the importance of poetics is also underlined),
leading to a reading of formalist criticism in the works of Derek Attridge,
Susan Wolfson, Peter de Bola, Angela Leighton and others, which loosely owes to
a longer post-Schiller aestheticist tradition of regarding form as a significant force. The cognitive
anthropology of Lambros Malafouris, a theory of material engagement, is
utilized to mediate the speculation that haunts this study: that form is a
repository of cognition. Form as a
force and cognitive entity, particular forms
as elements of poetic artifice, and forming
as active readerly engagement and transformation, are compared and
differentiated.
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