Formal Matters

Embodied Experience in Modern Literature

Zoe Roth

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Edinburgh University Press
19 August 2022

Literary theory; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Philosophy; Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism; History of ideas

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, and Anne F. Garreta. 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.

By: Zoe Roth
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 513g
ISBN: 9781474497503
ISBN 10: 1474497500
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 19 August 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Zoe Roth, Associate Professor of French in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University.

Reviews for Formal Matters: Embodied Experience in Modern Literature

Zoë Roth's Formal Matters combines subtle, nuanced, and intelligent analyses of texts by Samuel Beckett, Anne F. Garréta, Maurice Blanchot, Hannah Arendt and Primo Levi and a passionate plea for a ""corporeal turn."" Roth launches a literary tropology whose categories will become indispensable while demonstrating that a new positioning of the body is the key for a rejuvenated literary theory. --Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.