Books like Forms
Loved Forms by Caroline Levine? Here are 9 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.
About Forms →9 books
- 1The Well Wrought Urn
The Well Wrought Urn
Cleanth BrooksA classic formalist account of unity, paradox and close reading that Levine rereads and revises.
- 2The Political Unconscious
The Political Unconscious
Fredric JamesonA major attempt to connect literary form to historical and political context, the problem Levine addresses.
- 3Politics Of Aesthetics
Politics Of Aesthetics
Jacques RanciereExamines how aesthetic forms organize what can be seen, said and shared in political life.
- 4A History of the Modern Fact
A History of the Modern Fact
Mary PooveyTraces how forms of writing and classification shaped knowledge and social order, a study Levine engages directly.
- 5Graphs, Maps, Trees
Graphs, Maps, Trees
Franco MorettiUses abstract models such as maps and trees to read literature at scale, a related attempt to see pattern across works.
- 6Reassembling the Social
Reassembling the Social
Bruno LatourDescribes social life as networks of connections among people and things, close to Levine's view of networks.
- 7Marxism and Literature
Marxism and Literature
Raymond WilliamsConsiders how literary forms and cultural practices relate to social and material conditions.
- 8Touching Feeling
Touching Feeling
Eve Kosofsky SedgwickOffers a critical method that moves between close reading and attention to affect and the social world.
- 9The Limits of Critique
The Limits of Critique
Rita FelskiQuestions the habits of suspicious reading and asks what other modes of attention criticism might use.
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