In literary studies today, debates about the purpose of literary criticism and about the place of Formalism within it continue to simmer across periods and approaches.
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Anna Kornbluh contributes to--and substantially shifts--that conversation in The Order of Forms by offering an exciting new category, political formalism, which she articulates through the co-emergence of aesthetic and mathematical formalisms in the nineteenth century.
In literary studies today, debates about the purpose of literary criticism and about the place of Formalism within it continue to simmer across periods and approaches