Speculative Formalism: Literature, Theory, and the Critical Present

by Tom Eyers

Speculative Formalism engages decisively in recent debates in the literary humanities around form and formalism, making the case for a new, nonmimetic and antihistoricist theory of literary reference. Where formalism has often been accused of sealing texts within themselves, Eyers demonstrates instead how a renewed, speculative formalism can illuminate the particular ways in which literature actively opens onto history, politics, and nature,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810134306
• ISBN13: 9780810134300
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"