On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a WordOUP Oxford, 29/03/2007 - 288 páginas What is form? Why does form matter? In this imaginative and ambitious study, Angela Leighton assesses not only the legacy of Victorian aestheticism, and its richly resourceful keyword, 'form', but also the very nature of the literary. She shows how writers, for two centuries and more, have returned to the idea of form as something which contains the secret of art itself. She tracks the development of the word from the Romantics to contemporary poets, and offers close readings of,among others, Tennyson, Pater, Woolf, Yeats, Stevens, and Plath, to show how form has provided the single most important way of accounting for the movements of literary language itself. She investigates, for instance, the old debate of form and content, of form as music or sound-shape, as the ghostlydynamic and dynamics of a text, as well as its long association with the aestheticist principle of being 'for nothing'. In a wide-ranging and inventive argument, she suggests that form is the key to the pleasure of the literary text, and that that pleasure is part of what literary criticism itself needs to answer and convey. |
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... style goes round about enough . This absence of definable matter may be the very reason why he is so influential a literary voice . The aesthetic , for him , is not a subject on which to discourse ; it is of the nature of literary ...
... style goes round about enough . This absence of definable matter may be the very reason why he is so influential a literary voice . The aesthetic , for him , is not a subject on which to discourse ; it is of the nature of literary ...
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... style flows like the stream he describes , taking the subject away from itself , on a journey of shifting , wandering clauses , which end up , not saving but losing the thing in question . The Heraclitean flux is not only a congenial ...
... style flows like the stream he describes , taking the subject away from itself , on a journey of shifting , wandering clauses , which end up , not saving but losing the thing in question . The Heraclitean flux is not only a congenial ...
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... style ... impersonal in its beauty , the perfection of nobody's style — thus vindicating anew by its very impersonality that much worn , but not untrue saying , that the style is the man'.20 The insistence on style was always , for the ...
... style ... impersonal in its beauty , the perfection of nobody's style — thus vindicating anew by its very impersonality that much worn , but not untrue saying , that the style is the man'.20 The insistence on style was always , for the ...
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A Retrospective | 1 |
On Pots Crocks Lyres and Flutes | 30 |
Tennyson and Aestheticism | 55 |
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