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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Clearing the Ground: New Digital Positivisms, the Fate of Literary Theory, and the Stakes of a "Speculative Formalism"; 2. Francis Ponge, Jean Cavailles, and the Vexed Relation between Word and World; 3. Alain Badiou, Wallace Stevens, and the Paradoxical Productivity of Poetic Form; 4. Paul de Man's Poetic Materialism; 5. Language Poetry, Psychoanalysis, and the Formal Negotiation of History and Time; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.