Formalism and its Malcontents
Benjamin and de Man on the Function of Allegory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7932094 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jim Hansen (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 663-683 |
| Publication date | 2004-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/nlh.2005.0004 |
| OpenAlex | W1969549436 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 7 |
Responding to recent critical discussions concerning a new or resurgent formalism, the essay questions the very distinction between formalism and historicism by exploring the widely divergent ways that Walter Benjamin and Paul de Man negotiate the dialectical problem of immanent critique in their respective meditations on allegory
Allegory · Art · Art history · Dialectic · Epistemology · Formalism (music) · Historicism · Literature · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Philosophy · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2023 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |