Radical Formalisms

Reading, Theory, and the Boundaries of the Classical

Sarah Nooter, Professor Mario Telò (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-37743-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Sarah Nooter is Professor of Classics, Theatre, and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago, USA. Mario Telò is Professor of Rhetoric, Comparative Literature, and Ancient Greek and Roman Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

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)

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Erscheinungsdatum	11.01.2023
Zusatzinfo	10 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-37743-0 / 1350377430
ISBN-13	978-1-350-37743-1 / 9781350377431
Zustand	Neuware