Demonstrates the embodied foundation of figurative, poetic and
literary language and form Formal Matters re-examines the
postmodernist insistence that the body escapes signification by
turning to an unexpected source: early and mid-century formalisms.
Bringing together formalism's endeavour to give shape to the
ineffable with postmodernism's discursive body, the book argues
that embodiment or the experience of the lived, corporeal body is
not what resists representation but what constitutes form. Working
at the intersection of formalist criticism, phenomenology and body
studies, Zoe Roth reassesses the relationship between embodiment
and form in a range of modern European authors, including Primo
Levi, Maurice Blanchot, Samuel Beckett, Anne F. Garreta and Hannah
Arendt. Through close textual analysis, Formal Matters provides a
new method for grasping embodied experience where it appears most
attenuated and fragmented. It provides an original account of the
body's relationship to language and representation, while also
reinvigorating formalist methods with political potential.
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