Once more, and thinking of ring composition: Why aren’t literary critics interested in describing literary form?
If literary critics didn’t talk about form and if formalism weren’t a well recognized (family of) critical position(s), the answer would be simple. But that, I’m afraid, is not the case. Form and formalism are much discussed. And one of the big discussions revolves around the questions: What IS form, anyhow? There’s no consensus answer, not even close.
What brought the subject to mind just now is that ...