Radical Formalisms
Reading, Theory, and the Boundaries of the Classical
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 11 January 2024
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350377431
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 bw illus 578
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Long description:
The term "radical formalism" refers to strategies aimed at defamiliarising and revitalising conventional modes of formalistic reading and theorising form. These strategies disrupt and unsettle established norms while incorporating a metadiscursive awareness of their broader political implications. This volume presents a radical reconceptualisation of literary works from Greek and Roman antiquity. Engaging in an ongoing dialogue with critical theory and postcritique, as well as drawing inspiration from traditions rooted in Black art, poetry and philosophy-both directly and indirectly connected to the classical tradition-the essays in this collection explore subversions of canonical norms and resistances to the hegemony of textual order.
This collection not only provides new, provocative insights into a corpus of texts that has exerted a lasting impact on modern literature and philosophy, but also challenges current interpretive methods, recasting the very practice of reading in relation to form, poetics, language, sound, temporalities and textuality.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Foreword: A Word Besides, Sarah Nooter (University of Chicago, USA)
Introduction, Mario Telo (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Part I: Shaping Forms
1. Myth Formalism and Black Expression: The Case of Icarus, Patrice Rankine (University of Chicago, USA)
2. What Was Classics? Shane Butler (John Hopkins University, USA)
3. Mixed Media: Two Black Artists and the Icons of Classical Antiquity, Allannah Karas (University of Miami, USA)
Part II: Proximate Forms
4. Two Ways of Being Alone: Dual Form in Sappho Fragment 168b, Alex Purves (UCLA, USA)
5. Aristophanes and the Flying Sound, Sarah Nooter (University of Chicago, USA)
6. What Thou Art We Know Not: Pindar and Romanticism, Tom Phillips (University of Manchester, UK)
7. "I'm sorry about the poem"; 'Narcissi' and Incommensurability in Jamaica Kincaid's 'Lucy', Ren Ellis Neyra (Wesleyan University, USA)
Part III: Forms (Un)becoming
8. Heraclitus Stuttered, Victoria Wohl (University of Toronto, Canada)
9. Electra, Again, Sarah Olsen (Williams College, USA)
10. A Poetics of Imperceptibility in Statius's 'Thebaid', Efrossini Spentzou (Royal Holloway University, UK)
11. Form as Precarious Shelter: Gwendolyn Brooks' 'In the Mecca', Lucy Alford (Wake Forest University, USA)
Part IV: Forms Unfurling
12. Formalizations at the Threshold: Introductions to Horace, Victoria Rimell (University of Warwick, UK)
13. Quite a Bind: Couplet, Constraint, Claustrophobia, i.e., Ovid's 'Ibis', Tom Geue (Australian National University, Australia
14. Open Form in Nathaniel Mackey, Sean Alexander Gurd (University of Texas, Austin, USA)
15. 'Chal Chal Chal': Apollonius's Talos Tales (and Medea's), Mario Telo (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Notes
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Contributors
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