"Necessity of "Formalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4847294 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clement Greenberg (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 171 |
| Publication date | 1971-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/468386 |
| OpenAlex | W2325786967 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
HERE is the common notion of Modernism as something hectic, heated. Thus Irving Howe lists among the formal or literary attributes of modernism the fact that Perversity-Which Is to Say: Surprise, Excitement, Shock, Terror, Affront-Becomes a Dominant Motif (Introduction to a collection of essays by various hands called The Idea of the Modern [New York, 1967]). A related notion is that Modernism can be understood as an extreme version of
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Formalism (music) · Literature · Modernism (music) · Motif (music) · Post modernism · Postmodernism · Sociology · Surprise · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |