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FORMALISM (also known as new criticism ) A Basic Approach to Reading and Understanding literature Armstrong Atlantic State University 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 of reading strategies that isolate and objectify the overt structures of texts as well as authorial techniques and language usage. With these isolated and objective readings, new criticism aims to classify, categorize, and catalog works according to their formal attributes. Along the way, new criticism wants to pull out and discuss any universal truths that literary works might hold concerning the human condition.
basis for most literary education in the United States, and other critical approaches to reading and critiquing literature depend upon readers’ familiarity with these terms to articulate their findings.
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