Strategic Formalism: Toward a New Method in Cultural Studies

Levine, Caroline

doi:10.2979/vic.2006.48.4.625

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“…The journal, Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, was launched in 2001 by Norman Denzin. See also Pickering (2008), Levine (2006), Felski (2003, Murphy (1992), Driscoll (2001), andDenzin (1999). 19.…”

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First Precepts for Democracy and Research Practices in Ethnic Studies

Takagi

2015

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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Recent discussions by leading scholars in interdisciplinary fields, notably cultural studies, suggest the limitations of critique for producing intelligent practices for social change and have called for thinking anew about the practices of intellectual labor. In this essay, I call attention to research methodology as a form of intellectual labor and examine the importance of explicit methodological and critical research practices in interdisciplinary fields such as ethnic studies. I suggest that method in ethnic studies, currently an admixture of conventions from disciplines adapted for interdisciplinary research, would be strengthened with a more holistic methodological framework. I explore the potential for a more holistic framework by drawing on the philosophical underpinnings, and not simply the technique, of participatory action research (PAR). I examine the pragmatist origins of PAR and explore the potential for drawing on three methodological precepts—iteration, collaboration, and reflections—which are highly resonant with ethnic studies scholars’ desired aims at transformative scholarship.

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First Precepts for Democracy and Research Practices in Ethnic Studies

Takagi

2015

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“…As Caroline Levine argues, the poem depicts three types of familial connections and undercuts their claims to organize society. 26 EBB addresses her readers as "my brothers" and refers to England as "our happy Fatherland" (lines 21, 24), but she depicts working-class children as lacking comfort from their mothers and from God, who fails to act as a beneficent Father to them. At times, EBB gives voices to the child workers through imagined dialogue:…”

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The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Poetry

2019

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Poetic genres are not predetermined, unchanging categories but collections of texts that are perceived to share features. When we recognize generic categories as malleable, we are more likely to welcome a wider range of texts and authors, including women writers, into the literary canon. And a more inclusive canon leads to a wider recognition of formal shapes and rhetorical effects within each genre. Studying poetry by women gives us a fuller understanding of the constraints and potentials of each genre. Of course, Victorian women writers were constrained not only by literary conventions but also by social conventions and institutional inequalities. Isobel Armstrong has explored the ways female poets both worked within and critiqued conventions of gendered experience, but she also warns, "a concentration on moments of overt protest can extract the content of a direct polemic about women's condition in a way which retrieves the protest, but not the poem." 1 In what follows, I trace women poets' protests while attending to poetic form in experiments with genre, from the sonnet to the epic. As we shall see, women poets often protest social limitations while pushing against generic constraints, finding previously untapped potential in a genre, or offsetting the limitations of one genre by incorporating the strengths of another. Sonnet SequencesA sonnet is made up of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter connected through an intricate rhyme scheme (though in Modern Love [1862], George Meredith expands his sonnets to sixteen lines). The sonnet flourished in Elizabethan England, retreated in the eighteenth century, and reemerged with new subject matter in the Romantic period with the success of Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets (1784). In Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (EBB) returned the sonnet sequence to a focus on love, yet she inverted or reimagined traditional Petrarchan conceits. Whereas in sonnet sequences by Petrarch, Dante, Sidney, and Spenser, 13

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“…Recently, Caroline Levine has offered a useful survey in Literature Compass that explains how “formalist criticism and historical‐political studies of culture join forces” in Victorian Studies (“Formal Pasts” 1244). A broad methodological assessment of the relation between form and politics is beyond the scope of my essay; instead, I seek to answer a more specific question: why should the study of form have the capacity to shed light on the history of globalization?…”

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Form and Global Consciousness in the Victorian Period

Çelikkol

2013

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Cataloged from PDF version of article.The increased visibility of globalization in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries has\ud led scholars in various disciplines from sociology to economics to discuss its impact, scope, and\ud history. Literary criticism is no exception. This essay focuses on Victorian studies, in which the\ud effort to historicize globalization has produced new readings of familiar texts. Recently, scholars of\ud Victorian literature have been unearthing unlikely circuits of cross-cultural interaction, tracing cosmopolitan\ud sentiment, and shedding light on the ideology of the capitalist world system. This essay\ud explores how formal analysis sheds light on the history of globalization

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Strategic Formalism: Toward a New Method in Cultural Studies

Cited by 103 publications

References 18 publications

First Precepts for Democracy and Research Practices in Ethnic Studies

First Precepts for Democracy and Research Practices in Ethnic Studies

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Poetry

Form and Global Consciousness in the Victorian Period

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