The Idea of Spatial Form

by Joseph Frank

Book Overview

The Idea of Spatial Form contains the classic essay that introduced the concept of "spatial form" into literary discussion in 1945, and has since been accepted as one of the foundations for a theory of modern literature. It is here reprinted along with two later reconsiderations, one of which answers its major critics, while the second places the theory in relation to Russian Formalism and French Structuralism. Originally conceived to clarify the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813516439
• ISBN13: 9780813516431
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"