PPT-Formalism/New Criticism

By Jim Matt Max and Nick Definition Formalism Noun Strict adherence to or observance of prescribed or traditional forms as in music poetry and art What do Formalists do Formalists look at specific words and elements to critique in a given piece. Notes for the Director. OVERVIEW. Every production engenders a response. Directors need to grow by listening seriously and . thoughfully. to the feedback your production generates. Performance. A production is never finished until an audience watches and . Schools of Literary Theory. What is Literary Criticism?. The study, analysis, and evaluation of a work of literature. Each school of criticism uses a different focus or angle of analysis. Source: Purdue Owl Writing Lab. Piece One:. Piece Two. Piece Three. Piece 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZuBFz6WYfs. Formalism. Formalism. is a literary theory which argues that . how. a text is written is a just as important as . ENGL 3370: Modern American Poetry. New Criticism. A Brief Guide to the Fugitives.  (from poets.org) . “. The Fugitive. was a literary magazine of poetry and criticism published at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1922 until 1925. Both faculty and students, including John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, among others, contributed to this publication. They were practitioners and defenders of formal techniques in poetry and were preoccupied with defending the traditional values of the agrarian South against the effects of urban industrialization.. Overall documentary feel of . nouvelle vague . films. Location shooting, natural light, direct sound recording, grainy photography, casual composition. Long takes . Nouvelle Vague. Realism or Formalism?. vs.. . New Criticism. Differences and Similarities. By: Marina . Golubeva. &. . Cristina . Popa. Russian Formalism New Criticism . Focus . on understanding the literary text through the text . Most controversial, most abused, least appreciated form. Associated with Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939) and his followers. Creative writing (like dreaming) represents the (disguised) fulfillment of a (repressed) wish or fear. “The study of gender, within literature, is of general importance to everyone.”. - Judith Spector. “I have a male mind with male experiences. Therefore I see things through the perception of a man. I couldn’t relate to some of Virginia Woolf’s views and I despised the way she pushed her viewpoint on the reader. This was brought on by my masculinity, I feel.”. Redaction Criticism. Robert C. Newman. Biblical Seminary. Form Criticism. Terminology. '. Form Criticism. '. is the English rendering of the German . Formgeschichte. . ". form history. ". or . Gattungsforschung. What you need to know to about critiquing . Fault vs. Structure. Criticism finds fault. It states only problems without presenting evidence. It is based only on emotion.. Critique looks at structure. It looks at the “How,” “What,” and “Worth.” . English . 4U. by . Carlinda. . D’Alimonte. This presentation is partly based on a PowerPoint by . Suzann . Ledford.. Introduction to Literary Criticism. Any piece of text can be read with a number of different sets of “glasses,” meaning you are looking for different things within the text.. It . fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. . It . calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” . - Winston Churchill. What is Constructive Criticism?. Feedback about someone else’s work. Important Points:. Attribute latent or hidden meaning to unacknowledged desires in some person, usually the author or source behind the character in the narrative or drama.. Can also focus on the response of the readers and usually accepts the influence of changing social history on the structures of sexual desire represented in a work.. Literary theory and criticism are interpretive tools that help us think more deeply and insightfully about the literature that we read. Over time, different schools of literary criticism have developed, each with its own approaches to the act of reading..