https://mla.hcommons.org/members/ponderthis/activity/ Activity feed for George Phillips. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:56:09 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6bc5f7deca6b200a541a001ad60b0b35 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1721973/ Thu, 07 Jan 2021 03:50:59 -0500 This essay draws on formalist cultural studies and material feminism to argue for a new approach in modernist studies, which I call formalist materialism, an approach that reads ecological forms alongside aesthetic forms. Such an approach may have distinct advantages. Formalist materialism illuminates a new direction for formalists by connecting…[Read more]

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