Download or read book Open Form and the Shape of Ideas written by Oscar Kenshur and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines some of the ways in which discontinuous literary forms of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries serve as representations of philosophical ideas. The author provides a critique of Joseph Frank's "Spatial Form" and Umberto Eco's "Open Work" and then offers his own account of the theory of discontinuous form.