What is textual literary criticism? What is archetypal literary criticism? What is an example of literary criticism? What is explication in literary criticism? What is psychoanalysis in literary criticism? What is critical literary theory? What is social literary criticism? What are the methods of ...
diversion involving only form, and as a means of creating allegedly pure aesthetic values that are free of any relation to moral, political, or practical content. Formalism has also been reflected in the methodology of art studies; an example is the formal method of literary theory and ...
Therefore, literary evolution is an open-ended series of revolutions. The dominant (the special version of literariness governing all the works of a particular genre in a particular genre in a particular period) is displaced by sudden sharp overthrowings and reactions. For example, in English lit...
Using Lawrence as my prime example and Conrad as my secondary example, I want to examine how humanistic formalism addresses a number of issues pertaining to literary study. By examining some recent scholarship and criticism, I shall locate some topics and issues that need to be reconsidered in ...
Archetypalliterarycriticism，Feministliterarycriticism，NewHistoricism Formalism •Formalismisaschoolofliterarycriticismandliterarytheoryhavingmainlytodowithstructuralpurposesofaparticulartext.•Inliterarytheory,formalismreferstocriticalapproachesthatanalyze,interpret,orevaluatetheinherentfeaturesofatext.Thesefeaturesincludenot...
One of several alternative computational paradigms for a given theory. noun (literature) An approach to interpretation and/or evaluation focused on the (usually linguistic) structure of a literary work rather than on the contexts of its origin or reception. noun (music) The tendency to elev...
but not to the earlier generation of phenomeno-logical formalists). Kridl’s subsequent interest in Russian formalism – of whichhisWstęp do badań nad dziełem literackim(Introduction to Literary Studies,Kridl1936) is a shining example – was induced by his younger students in Vilna (i....
RussianFormalistsemphasizedthe"literariness"ofartistictexts,whichtheyfoundinthelinguisticandstructuralfeaturesofliterature(asopposedtoitssubjectmatter).Forexample,VictorShklovsky,inhisfamousessay"ArtasTechnique,"offershisnotionofdefamiliarizationasthedefiningfeatureofliterarytexts.Arttakesthatwhichisfamiliarand"makesit...
For example, people often praise the "realism" of the boxing matches in Raging Bull. What they really mean is that these scenes are powerful, intense, and vivid. These traits owe very little to realism as a style. In fact, the boxing matches are extremely stylized. The images are ...
The article traces the history of the question of the sources of Russian Formalism and stresses the difficulties inherent to this question. Russian Formalism is a diverse movement, and it is difficult to speak of its sources as a whole. For instance, if we take the example of two forgotten ...