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  2. Formalism (literature) - Wikipedia

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    Two schools of formalist literary criticism developed, Russian formalism, and soon after Anglo-American New Criticism. Formalism was the dominant mode of academic literary study in the US at least from the end of the Second World War through the 1970s, especially as embodied in René Wellek and Austin Warren's Theory of Literature (1948, 1955 ...

  3. Formalism (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In such reference, Hjelmslevian "formalism" is closer to Husserlian logicism than game formalism because semantics constitutes one the two fundamental planes of his notion of language. Again, Roman Jakobson, who was indeed a member of the Prague functionalist school, was also an advocate of a literary theory or movement called Russian formalism ...

  4. The Structure of Literature - Wikipedia

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    The Structure of Literature is a 1954 book of literary criticism by Paul Goodman, the published version of his doctoral dissertation in the humanities.The book proposes a mode of formal literary analysis that Goodman calls "inductive formal analysis": Goodman defines a formal structure within an isolated literary work, finds how parts of the work interact with each other to form a whole, and ...

  5. Foregrounding - Wikipedia

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    For example, the last line of a poem with a consistent metre may be foregrounded by changing the number of syllables it contains. This would be an example of a deviation from a secondary norm. In the following poem by E. E. Cummings, [16] there are two types of deviation: light's lives lurch a once world quickly from rises army the gradual of ...

  6. Todorov's narrative theory of equilibrium - Wikipedia

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    Raphael Baroni argues that narrative theory’s excess formalism is a “toolbox” for literary study. [21] Baroni accuses Todorov of confining commentary to an objective overview of narrative structure, [21] instead of analysing functions, meanings and sociohistorical contexts. He concludes that narrative theory falls short of discussing the ...

  7. New Formalism - Wikipedia

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    New Formalism is a late 20th- and early 21st-century movement in American poetry that has promoted a return to metrical, rhymed verse and narrative poetry on the grounds that all three are necessary if American poetry is to compete with novels and regain its former popularity among the American people.

  8. Reader-response criticism - Wikipedia

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    Its conceptualization of critical practice is distinguished from theories that favor textual autonomy (for example, Formalism and New Criticism) as well as recent critical movements (for example, structuralism, semiotics, and deconstruction) due to its focus on the reader's interpretive activities. [2]

  9. Formal system - Wikipedia

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    A formal system is an abstract structure and formalization of an axiomatic system used for deducing, using rules of inference, theorems from axioms by a set of inference rules.