FORMALISM (also known as NEW CRITICISM) A Basic Approach to Reading and Understanding Literature Formalist theory has dominated the American literary scene for most of the twentieth century‚ and it has retained its great influence in many academic quarters. Its practitioners advocate methodical and systematic readings of texts. The major premises of New Criticism include: "art for art’s sake‚" "content = form‚" and "texts exist in and for themselves." These premises lead to the development
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Prepared by Adjunct Professor Paul Loosley FTV 111/511 History of Screen Language Auteur Formalism & Realism. Formalism and Realism Hero. Zhang Yi Mou. 2002 Week 2. FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION‚ MEDIA AND BROADCASTING Adjunct Professor Paul Loosley 1 Prepared by Adjunct Professor Paul Loosley FTV 111/511 History of Screen Language Auteur Formalism & Realism. Formalism is simply the seeing film as an expressive medium where filmmaking is purely to communicate whatever
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A Brief Introduction to Russian Formalism Zhu Gang In the heyday of high modernism emerged a group of college students and young faculty in Moscow and Petersburg‚ Russia‚ whose interest was claimed to be literature per se. They were few in number‚ but their unmistakable insistence on the ideal status of literary study and stubborn pursuit for its realization has marked the beginning of a new era‚ and produced profound influence on the subsequent development of contemporary Western critical
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Högskolan Dalarna Literature D-Level Essay Supervisor: Mats Tegmark The Construction of Identity in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones Mohammad Wahidul Islam 830301-T236 Armegatan 32/0116 Solna 17171 h05mwisl@du.se Table of contents Introduction…………………………………………………………………….1 How Danticat Communicates Her Views on Post-Colonial Identity to Her Readers…………………………………………………………………………3 Identity is Constructed Through Conflicts………………………………… 9 External Conflicts between Two Nations……………………………………
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Russian formalism. A school of literary theory and analysis that emerged in Russia around 1915‚ devoting itself to the study of literariness‚ i.e. the sum of ’devices’ that distinguish literary language from ordinary language. In reaction against the vagueness of previous literary theories‚ it attempted a scientific description of literature (especially poetry) as a special use of language with observable features. This meant deliberately disregarding the contents of literary works‚ and thus inviting
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guidance. Rather‚ Kant tests these moral concerns in practice and in doing so we discover that the charge of empty-formalism does not withstand careful scrutiny. Secondly‚ through this process I intend on being able to analyze where possible ways of addressing this critique may exist‚ and‚ drawing from the secondary literature‚ discuss ways that approaches to this critique may be useful in addressing the emptiness critique comprehensively. The formalist interpretation holds that moral law is a formal
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Kant’s Formalism Theory The theories of Immanuel Kant‚ a German philosopher‚ have had an impact on the formulation and shaping of ethics today. Immanuel Kant graced this earth from 1724 to 1804. During his eighty year life time‚ he formulated many interesting ideas regarding ethical conduct and motivation. Kant is strictly a non-consequentialist philosopher‚ which means that he believes that a person’s choices should have nothing to do with the desired outcome‚ but instead mankind simply
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Formalism and New Criticism “Formalism” is‚ as the name implies‚ an interpretive approach that emphasizes literary form and the study of literary devices within the text. The work of the Formalists had a general impact on later developments in “Structuralism” and other theories of narrative. “Formalism‚” like “Structuralism‚” sought to place the study of literature on a scientific basis through objective analysis of the motifs‚ devices‚ techniques‚ and other “functions” that comprise the literary
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be looking into the views of the Russian formalists such as Victor Shlovsky and Alexander Potebnya‚ and relating their thoughts to the poem. I will then be seeing how the ‘The Thorn’ relates to elements of the uncanny in its content. I will finish by including a reader response‚ where I will draw on my own thoughts of the poem. Russian formalism Russian formalism advocated a ‘scientific’ method for studying poetic language. Russian formalists saw poetry as something that can be mechanically taken
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Kant’s Formalism Theory defines moral judgments as laws. These laws are to be concrete and not to waiver once set (Kant‚ 1948‚ n.p.). Formalism theory suggests that your actions are to be set as the universal laws that define your judgment. Immanuel Kant added that these laws as well as your actions are to be concrete going forward for all similar circumstances. As I apply this theory to Warner Case #5‚ I see that the Prosecuting Attorney will have to follow his judgment on all cases with the same
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