Formal Matters

Demonstrates the embodied foundation of figurative, poetic and literary language and form Develops the novel concept of 'embodied form', which argues that embodiment is both a material shape and an organizing principle in literatureBrings together early and mid-century formalist criticism with phenomenology and body studies to argue for the political potential of formalist approaches to embodied experienceOffers a counterpoint to the discursive, socially constructed body and poststructuralist, h