… followed New Formalism's journey … New Formalism as a burgeoning field of literary criticism
and explicates its potential as a varied but viable methodology of contemporary critical theory…

… genuinely new formalism in action, Robert Kaufman’s “Everybody Hates Kant: Blakean
Formalism … of formalism is limited not only to hearsay but to highly partisan hearsay, pro and con. …

… driving New Formalisms and Literary Theory is a sense that an important aspect of the literary
experience has been neglected during the heyday of politico- historical, contextual theories…

… closer to the little formalism I seek—a formalism of metaphysical rather than historical
materialism. Contemporary metaphysics, like contemporary literary theory (especially as marked …

… Classical Greek literary theory might be described as mimetic formalism: literature was …
The period’s first significant theoretical discussion of literature, in books II, III, and X of Plato’…

… trends in English literary manuscript studies. How, we ask, can the lively field of book history
take new direction through contact with the ‘new formalisms’ articulated in literary studies? …

… (2) Afull-scale theory of New Historicism. Only on the basis of an adequate history of the
New Historicism, I suggest, can an adequate theory of the method be articulated. This is …

… toward the literary formalism with which we are familiar. For formalism in literary studies over
… that striving for form is the distinguishing mark of the literary. If every kind of discourse had a …

… New Critical concerns, at times more thematic than methodological, New Formalism follows
in the wake of criticism and theory … in the text that go beyond New Critical “irony” and “tension,…

… to, strategic formalism draws on both past formalisms and … But all are also "literary" in the New
Critical sense that they … [End Page 635] think like New Critics about how both reductive and …