Reading for Form

Introduction: Reading for Form / Susan J. Wolfson

Form and Contentment / Ellen Rooney

Hating and Loving Aesthetic Formalism: Some Reasons / Virgil Nemoianu

Medieval Forma: The Logic of the Work / D. Vance Smith

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Reinterpreting Formalism and the Country House Poem / Heather Dubrow

"Among Unequals What Society": Paradise Lost and the Forms of Intimacy / Ronald Levao

Formalism and History: Binarism and the Anglophone Couplet / J. Paul Hunter

The Signature and the Initial in Zukofsky's "A" / Susan Stewart

"Sound Scraps, Vision Scraps": Paul Celan's Poetic Practice / Marjorie Perloff

Everybody Hates Kant: Blakean Formalism and the Symmetries of Laura Moriarty / Robert Kaufman

Jane Austen, Emma, and the Impact of Form / Frances Ferguson

The Foreign Offices of British Fiction / Garrett Stewart

The Slaughterhouse of Literature / Franco Moretti

Formalism and Time / Catherine Gallagher

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