a critical emphasis upon style, arrangement, and artistic means with limited attention to content, —formalist,n. —formalistic,adj. See also:Criticism -Ologies & -Isms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved. ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: ...
dworkin has been the foremost advocate of the formalist approach with some subtle variations. Although Dworkin stops short of explicitly comparing law to science and math, he maintains that law is best explained as a rational and cohesive system of principles that judges must apply with integrity....
FORMALISM OR ANTI-FORMALISM: REGULATION AND THE BANK OF ENGLAND The supervisory authority of the Bank of England derives from tradition and statute. The interplay of these two factors can be analysed by applying a formalist/anti-formalist model. In this paper this has been developed to explain ...
Formalism refers to a way of creating, viewing and interpreting art that focuses on the visual elements and principles of design, disregarding politics, historical context, content and the artist. Use the formalist approach to evaluating various artworks with information from an art historian, critic...
The remark: “We are all textualists now” was made in 2015 by justice Elena Kagan of the US Supreme Court as an acknowledgement to the success of ordinary meaning textualism – a formalist approach to legal interpretation (Harvard Law School, The Antonin Scalia Lecture Series: A Dialogue wit...
Arguably Kelsen's theory is to be understood as a formal approach to law. Still: Whether the appreciation of positivist thought as "formalist" or even "hyperformalist" actually does apply obviously depends on the definition of formalism. But, even if Kelsen's theory of legal positivism is to...
Dreyfus employed a legal formalist approach and that by applying this framework, the court prevented legal immigrants, who were caught between the strict eligibility r... H Zommick 被引量: 0发表: 2014年 Evolution and Revolution in Theories of Legal Reasoning: Nineteenth Century Through the ...
Videogame Formalism addresses these issues through an exploration of the historical and theoretical roots of formalist approaches to videogame analysis, situating this approach within games studies, and arguing for its importance and applicability as a methodological toolkit and a theoretical framework for ...
This paper analyzes the contemporary emergence of neo-formalist and neo-functionalist approaches to law-making at a time when the state is seeking to reassert, reformulate and reconceptualize its regulatory competence, both domestically and transnationally. While the earlier turn to alternative regulation...
literature, which centered on the artist and individual creative genius, and instead placed the text itself back into the spotlight to show how the text was indebted to form and structure Two schools of formalist literary criticism developed, Russian formalism, and soon after Anglo-American New ...