New Formalisms and Literary Theory

Part I. Introduction

1. New Formalism(s): A Prologue
Verena Theile

Part II. Theory

2. Toward a New Formalism: The Intrinsic and Related Problems in Criticism and Theory
Fredric V. Bogel

3. Doing Genre
Group Phi

Part III. Practice

4. Inventing an Ancestor: The Scholar-Poet and the Sonnet
Edward Brunner

5. From Close Reading to Cross-Reading: Sacco-Vanzetti Poetry and the Politics of New Formalism
Bartholomew Brinkman

6. Re-Reading for Forms in Sir Philip Sidney’s Defence of Poesy

Corey McEleney, Jacqueline Wernimont

7. Collecting Body Parts in Leonardo’s Cave: Vasari’s Lives and the Erotics of Obscene Connoisseurship
Harry Berger

8. Form as a Pattern of Thinking: Cognitive Poetics and New Formalism
Karin Kukkonen

Part IV. Pedagogy

9. Reading Like a Writer: A Creative Writer’s Approach to New Formalism
Kelcey Parker

10. Punk Bodies, Jorie Graham, and the Draft Itself: Notes Toward a Lyric Formalism
Cynthia Nichols

11. ‘One Another’s Hermitage’: New Formalist Pedagogy
Linda Tredennick

Avainsanat: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature