Please join us on Thursday, February 18 for The Center for the Study of the Novel’s second book event of the year. CSN is delighted to welcome Caroline Levine, Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for the launch of her book Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network (Princeton UP, 2015).
Professor Levine’s book, which Amanda Claybaugh has called “the map that will lead us out of the dead end facing literary studies today,” takes up one of the most intractable problems of literary theory: the problem of literature’s relationship to society and politics. Forms borrows the concept of “affordances” from design theory to explore the ways that four major forms – wholes, rhythms, hierarchies, and networks – structure both literary texts and political life, as well as our efforts to understand them. Kent Puckett (UC Berkeley) and Stanford’s own Alex Woloch will serve as Professor Levine’s respondents.
For more information, please contact Mark Taylor.