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New Formalist Criticism defines and theorizes a mode of formalist criticism that is theoretically compatible with current thinking about literature and theory. New formalism anticipates a move in literary studies back towards the text and, in so doing, establishes itself as one of the most exciting areas of contemporary critical theory.

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Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Method, Meaning, Formalism 2. Old and New Formalisms 3. New Formalist Interpretation 4. Textual Infatuation, True Infatuation Coda: New Formalisms Bibliography Index

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Fredric V. Bogel has taught in the Cornell University English Department since the 1980s, offering courses in eighteenth-century literature, critical theory, and the analysis of poetry. His research focuses on formalist criticism, modern critical theory, eighteenth-century literature, and theory of satire. He is currently writing on materialist and volitional accounts of affective and aesthetic experience in eighteenth-century literature, philosophy, aesthetics, and acting theory.

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