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Re-reading for forms in sir Philip Sidney's defence of poesy

Corey McEleneyJacqueline Wernimont

pp. 116-139

Abstract

Early modern literature, the field through which New Historicism first came into prominence and dominance, presents a special case for New Formalism. Early modern texts have been uncannily hospitable to New Historicist approaches (which may be an effect of their privileged position within earlier New Critical approaches) and are thus a site for formalist re-readings. More importantly, perhaps, early modern texts are hospitable to formal questions because early modern literary criticism and theory was essentially formalist. Working in an era of literary production that systematized its conceptions of genre and rhetoric, early modern authors obsessed over the forms by which texts produce their effects.

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Theile Verena, Tredennick Linda (2013) New formalisms and literary theory. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 116-139

DOI: 10.1057/9781137010490_6

Full citation:

McEleney Corey, Wernimont Jacqueline (2013) „Re-reading for forms in sir Philip Sidney's defence of poesy“, In: V. Theile & L. Tredennick (eds.), New formalisms and literary theory, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 116–139.