Titlebook: New Formalisms and Literary Theory; Verena Theile (Assistant Professor of English),Lin Book 2013 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmill

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Toward a New Formalism: The Intrinsic and Related Problems in Criticism and Theory,’ ‘literary language’ — as a relation between text and reader is a characteristic move of recent formalist criticism. It is, for one thing, a way of revising and thus extending a number of the most valuable insights of the New Critical era without endorsing its more problematic assumptions.