Formal Matters : : Embodied Experience in Modern Literature / / Zoë Roth.

Demonstrates the embodied foundation of figurative, poetic and literary language and formDevelops the novel concept of 'embodied form', which argues that embodiment is both a material shape and an organizing principle in literatureBrings together early and mid-century formalist criticism w...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Matter of Form
  • 1 The Corporeal Urn
  • 2 La Pensée incarnée: Embodying the Unrepresentable in Anne F. Garréta’s Sphinx
  • 3 “All life is figure and ground”: Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Embodied Form
  • 4 The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Chiasmus, Embodiment, and Interpretation in Maurice Blanchot
  • 5 The Hunger Artist: Testimony, Representation, and Embodiment in Primo Levi
  • Afterword Against the Unrepresentable: The Common Sense of Embodied Form
  • Bibliography
  • Index