The gender binary has force, in short, because it is reductive.
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Forms
Forms offers a powerful new answer to one of the most pressing problems facing literary, critical, and cultural studies today―how to connect form to political, social, and historical context. Caroline Levine argues that forms organize not only w
Characters
As many different hierarchies simultaneously seek to impose their orders on us, they do not always align, and when they do collide, they are capable of generating more disorder than order. In fact, as they collide with other hierarchies and an array of other forms in social situations, hierarchies o…
All hierarchies afford gradation.
The word hierarchy was first used in the sixth century CE, when it referred to levels of angelic choruses, but it soon came to be applied to the governance of the Church, to describe its strictly ordered levels of authority and subordination. Gradually, from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuri…
The word hierarchy comes from the Greek hieros, meaning ‘sacred,’ and arche, meaning ‘rule.
The form that best captures the experience of colliding forms is narrative.
I have always thought, none of our research matters unless it is generalizable, unless we can learn something from it that has implications beyond its own time.
The best close readers are always attentive to many different forms at different scales operating at once.