In Search of Literary Science the Russian Formalist Tradition

Warner, Nicholas O.

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“…A distinction between 'fact' and 'fiction', then, seems unlikely to get us very far, not least because the distinction itself is often a questionable one. [2]It has been argued, for instance, that our own opposition between 'historical' and 'artistic' truth does not apply at all to the early Icelandic sagas. In the English late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the word 'novel' seems to have been used about both true and fictional events, and even news reports were hardly to be considered factual.…”

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Literary and Non-LiteraryTexts from Viewpoint of Formalism as Rudimentary of Other Literary Criticism

Khosravishakib¹

2012

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From the late nineteenth century critics have regularly labeled certain compositions as 'literature', but the criteria for the definition have not always been made explicit. Criteria, implicit and explicit, vary. In definition of literature it could be consider the three areas; function, form and content. With criteria of function, form and content, the modern reader/researcher may locate a composition on a spectrum from least to most self-conscious communication. An awareness of the relative place of communicated words lifts the issue of defining literature from a sterile debate to an act of engagement. The most important activity in receiving a work as literary, and in appreciating a literature, is focusing on Language and its maneuver as widely as possible both in literary and in non-literary writings. Formalism is the first school which regularly put focus on language and its structures of the literary work for distinguishing from non-literary ones. This paper trace the formalism methods for understanding the difference between literary text and non-literary and in the end come to exact definition of literature.

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Literary and Non-LiteraryTexts from Viewpoint of Formalism as Rudimentary of Other Literary Criticism

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2012

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In Search of Literary Science the Russian Formalist Tradition

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Literary and Non-LiteraryTexts from Viewpoint of Formalism as Rudimentary of Other Literary Criticism

Literary and Non-LiteraryTexts from Viewpoint of Formalism as Rudimentary of Other Literary Criticism

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