It didn’t look like a bird
Michael Wood: The New Formalism, 27 August 2015
Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network
by Caroline Levine.
Princeton, 173 pp., £19.95, January 2015,978 0 691 16062 7 Show More
by Caroline Levine.
Princeton, 173 pp., £19.95, January 2015,
“... form was a frill; or that form called all the shots and content was a sort of humanist illusion. Caroline Levine’s provocative plea for formalism – ‘I propose here to track the forms of the content’, she says – opens with the story of just such a difference within the family. She would argue, she tells us, ‘that patterns of language came ... ”
