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In literary studies today, debates about the purpose of literary criticism and about the place of formalism within it continue to simmer across periods and approaches. Anna Kornbluh contributes to--and substantially shifts--that conversation in The Order of Forms by offering an exciting new category, political formalism, which she articulates through the co-emergence of aesthetic and mathematical formalisms in the nineteenth century. Within this framework, criticism can be understood as more affirmative and constructive, articulating commitments to aesthetic expression and social collectivity. Kornbluh offers a powerful argument that political formalism, by valuing forms of sociability like the city and the state in and of themselves, provides a better understanding of literary form and its political possibilities than approaches that view form as a constraint. To make this argument, she takes up the case of literary realism, showing how novels by Dickens, Bront , Hardy, and Carroll engage mathematical formalism as part of their political imagining. Realism, she shows, is best understood as an exercise in social modeling--more like formalist mathematics than social documentation. By modeling society, the realist novel focuses on what it considers the most elementary features of social relations and generates unique political insights. Proposing both this new theory of realism and the idea of political formalism, this inspired, eye-opening book will have far-reaching implications in literary studies.

Formalism (Literary analysis) --- Criticism

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Ceux que - contre leur gré - on a nommé les « Formalistes » russes comptaient dans leurs rangs de nombreux talents, voire des génies. Parmi eux, Viktor Chklovski, Boris Eichenbaum et Iouri Tynianov. Ces « trois titans de la pensée en théorie de la littérature » furent aussi des écrivains d'envergure : Zoo, Voyage sentimental, Le Lieutenant Kijé ou La Mort du Vazir-Moukhtar suffiraient à en témoigner. Si chacun des membres de ce « trio prodigieux » élabora une œuvre forte et personnelle, leur parcours n'en est pas moins marquépar un constant échange d'idées entre eux. Leur correspondance même - où règnent la vivacité de l'intelligence, l'humour et la chaleur de l'amitié - est un monument épistolaire souvent éblouissant. Découverts en Occident dans les années 60, grâce à la médiation de Roman Jakobson et portés par la vague structuraliste, les Formalistes russes continuent aujourd'hui de fasciner. À travers des études, des témoignages et une riche moisson d'inédits, ce numéro d'Europe revient à point nommé sur l'apport de ces découvreurs de voies nouvelles.

Formalism (Literary analysis) --- Russian literature

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Formalism (Literary analysis). --- Literature, Modern.