A Brief Introduction to Russian Formalism Zhu Gang In the heyday of high modernism emerged a group of college students and young faculty in Moscow and Petersburg‚ Russia‚ whose interest was claimed to be literature per se. They were few in number‚ but their unmistakable insistence on the ideal status of literary study and stubborn pursuit for its realization has marked the beginning of a new era‚ and produced profound influence on the subsequent development of contemporary Western critical
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and relating their thoughts to the poem. I will then be seeing how the ‘The Thorn’ relates to elements of the uncanny in its content. I will finish by including a reader response‚ where I will draw on my own thoughts of the poem. Russian formalism Russian formalism advocated a ‘scientific’ method for studying poetic language. Russian formalists saw poetry as something that can be mechanically taken in order to reveal devices that make it up. The formalists believed that poetry was made up of several
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June 15‚ 2009 According to Louis Gianneti in his text Understanding Movies- Eleventh Edition‚ realism and formalism are general terms. These terms can be applied to portions of or scenes in a movie. They can show the tendency of the movie to lean toward one style over the other‚ but rarely can be applied to an entire movie. Both realism and formalism use reality as a foundation‚ but differ in how the reality is emphasized or shaped. The style of realism typically captures
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producing a film‚ there are two techniques that can be applied. The first being realism‚ where the importance of the story overshadows the art of production. Second being Formalism‚ where an emphasis is placed on the production of the film‚ often resulting in enhances visuals and sounds effects. Although production has advanced since the first motion pictures in the 1890s‚ the key components of a good film hold steady. Formalism and Realism are accomplished in all great movies. Formalism is the theory
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111/511 History of Screen Language Auteur Formalism & Realism. Formalism and Realism Hero. Zhang Yi Mou. 2002 Week 2. FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION‚ MEDIA AND BROADCASTING Adjunct Professor Paul Loosley 1 Prepared by Adjunct Professor Paul Loosley FTV 111/511 History of Screen Language Auteur Formalism & Realism. Formalism is simply the seeing film as an expressive medium where filmmaking is purely to communicate whatever message the film has to offer. There is no intent to be
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FORMALISM (also known as NEW CRITICISM) A Basic Approach to Reading and Understanding Literature 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
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LITERATURE was developed at the beginning of the 20th century and remained popular until the 1970s‚ when other literary theories began to gain popularity. Today‚ formalism is generally regarded as a rigid and inaccessible means of reading literature‚ used in Ivy League classrooms and as the subject of scorn in rebellious coming-of-age films. It is an approach that is concerned primarily with form‚ as its name suggests‚ and thus places the greatest emphasis on how something is said‚ rather than what
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Chapter-1 Introduction 1. Art and Its Relation to Life Life and art are very closely related. Life is a series of experiences and art is the imitation and presentation of them. Life is the mixture of pains and pleasures whereas the art is imitation of them. The art makes life beautiful‚ meaningful‚ successful and worth living. The art means drawing‚ painting‚ singing song‚ acting different roles‚ writing literary works‚ decorating‚ presenting and so on. It is
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soul-numbing‚ shit-out-of-luck offer their own shades of meaning‚ depending on how angry you want to be. But quotidian is such a delicious word. It rolls around in the mouth‚ and has eye appeal; you have to look it up. When I was a student reading and writing film critiques I became deeply suspicious of the word. Quotidian in the first or second paragraph meant many more paragraphs congratulating the auteur’s and/or the reviewer’s ability to perceive‚ elucidate‚ and therefore‚ elevate‚ the existential angst
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Foucault ’s Las Meninas and art-historical methods. Michel Foucault ’s study of Velazquez ’s Las Meninas (1) was first published in the volume Les Mots et les choses in 1966 which was followed‚ in 1970‚ by the English translation titled The Order of Things. In "Las Meninas"‚ which is the title of the opening chapter of The Order of Things‚ Foucault focused on the artwork itself as though it were before him‚ describing in extraordinary detail what he saw. His seemingly unobtrusive actions--looking
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