{"product_id":"formal-matters-zoz-roth-9781474497510","title":"Formal Matters: Embodied Experience in Modern Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFormal Matters\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003eWorking at the intersection of formalist criticism, phenomenology, and body studies, Zoë 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. Garréta. Through close textual analysis, \u003ci\u003eFormal Matters\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Zoë Roth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474497519\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474497510\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/12\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.51d","brand":"Zoë Roth","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48458591928575,"sku":"9781474497510","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b7339920-04b2-4606-ad42-241a71530485.jpg?v=1777405377","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/formal-matters-zoz-roth-9781474497510","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}