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...seem more heraldic than natural. (Though the vertical split line that bisects Cabin Fever might be read as the finish post at the end of a horse race, it's probably just a relic of Minimalist style.) The opposites didn't amalgamate well. As Rothenberg herself put it, "My formalist side was denying my content side." And so "I began tearing it ((the horse)) apart to find out what it meant...
...then, in that department we have our own way of labeling literary history--Middle English, Renaissance, Classicist, Romantic, Modernist, Post-Modernist, Neo-Classicist, Formalist, Structural, Post-Structural, Deconstructionist, Post-Literal, Post-Lingual. And we think that television is killing books...
...scholars are quick to say that he is not an American formalist, someone who is only interested in how styles evolved. His emphasis on representation has produced "an amazing richness of interpretation" which formalism would never have allowed, says Bryson...
...Formalist' is such a dirty word," Bryson says. "American formalism is a stagnant and uninteresting movement. I would not associate Alain's formalism with American formalism...
...Bois, his identity, both as historian and theorist, is still more complex. "I am a formalist who does not believe we can separate form and content, so it is not exactly formalist," says Bois. "If I am a formalist, let's say, my motto is more the Russian formalist than American formalist...