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Paul Goodman's Literary Criticism Analysis

The document discusses Paul Goodman's 1954 book The Structure of Literature which proposed analyzing the formal structure and interactions between parts of literary works and applying those definitions to other works, analyzing multiple examples through close reading and genre discussion though receiving mixed reviews for style issues obscuring its argument.

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Paul Goodman's Literary Criticism Analysis

The document discusses Paul Goodman's 1954 book The Structure of Literature which proposed analyzing the formal structure and interactions between parts of literary works and applying those definitions to other works, analyzing multiple examples through close reading and genre discussion though receiving mixed reviews for style issues obscuring its argument.

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01. The Structure of Literature is a 1954 book of literary criticism by Paul Goodman, the
published version of his doctoral dissertation.

02. It proposes a mode of formal literary analysis in which Goodman defines a formal
structure within an isolated literary work, finds how parts of the work interact with
each other to form a whole, and uses those definitions to study other works.

03. He analyzes multiple literary works as examples with close reading and genre
discussion. Goodman finished his dissertation in 1940, but took 14 years to publish it.
In mixed reviews, critics described the book as falling short of its aims;

04. engaging psychological insight and incisive asides were mired in glaring style issues
and jargon that made passages impenetrable or obscured his argument

05. Though Goodman contributed to the development of the Chicago School of


Aristotelian formal literary criticism, he neither received wide academic recognition for
his dissertation nor was his method accepted by his field.

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