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Gombrowicz, with a tiny but pivotal detour through Lyotard (on Wittgenstein), to set up Beckett, Bartoszyńska stakes Form with a capital “F” as “a kind of fiction within reality, defined by language” (111), or “some kind of abstract realm [that] turns out to be an illumination of forces at work in reality itself” (113), “the sinister physical force of Form,” whereby “Józio increasingly submits to Form,” leading to “Józio’s entrapment in Form” (111). I had not known the Polish texts before reading this book, but I will read Ferdydurke now—not for its global formalism but definitely for its pupa Form.
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As the official publication of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Eighteenth-Century Studies is committed to publishing the best of current writing on all aspects of eighteenth-century culture. The journal selects essays that employ different modes of analysis and disciplinary discourses to explore how recent historiographical, critical, and theoretical ideas have engaged scholars concerned with the eighteenth century.