Philosophy + Literature Workshop: Katherin Yu
A discussion with Katherin Yu (Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature, Stanford University) on "Hybridity Formalism: The Counting Upwards of Poetry’s Internal Arrangements Since Mallarmé’s Un Coup de Dès".
In reimagining Caroline Levine’s Forms (2015), this essay takes on a concept of poetry’s formal arrangements which alters the symbolic one-to-one or one-to-many affordances of individual forms. Katherin draws from Mallarmé’s Un coup de dés (1897): from amongst the poem’s multitudinous readings, this essay focalizes the counting upwards of poetic patterns through the implicit sequence of numbers five, six, and seven evoked in the poem’s Septentrion. Katherin demonstrates that the formalist principles underlying Coup de dés can be mobilized toward a hybridity formalism in the twentieth-century poetic canon.