Formalism (literature)

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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) notions of culture or societal influence, authorship and content, but instead focuses on modes, genres, discourse, and forms.

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