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Journal Article
On Not Being Too Formalistic About Aesthetic Value
2020
Overview
I hope to show how we might resist a certain kind of formalism in talking about aesthetic value: in particular, given my own interests, when talking about the aesthetic value of literary works, poetry, say, or the novel. It is a sensitive topic for me because I have sometimes been charged with being a formalist in my writing about literature: a charge that seems to arise out of my rejection of truth as one of the core values of literature.1 But I don’t see myself as a formalist—in any recognizable sense of the term—but I do think that literary works exhibit aesthetic values.
