Formalist Criticism: it emphasizes the text. detemines the style, structure, tone and imigary of the text, and how all these elements are working together in the story and what effect is it having on the readers. this only examines the text itself, it doesnt matter what is the settig, history or caracters.
Biographical Criticism: it emphasizes the source.rather than examining the text it examines the author. it looks at who wrote