Formalism (literature)

Formalism is a school of literary criticism and literary theory having mainly to do with structural purposes of a particular text. It is the study of a text without taking into account any outside influence. Formalism rejects or sometimes simply "brackets" (i.e., ignores for the purpose of analysis, (see Bracketing (phenomenology)) ) notions of culture or societal influence, authorship and content, but instead focuses on modes, genres, discourse, and forms.

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