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- Dictionaryformalist/ˈfɔːməlɪst/
noun
- 1. a person who adheres excessively to prescribed forms: "to the strict formalist, the law is the law"
adjective
- 1. relating to or supporting principles of formalism: "formalist arguments"
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5 days ago · Although there are clear differences between the various formalist critical schools, they share a number of important similarities. The most significant is a focus on the formal aspects...
5 days ago · Last Updated: Jul 4, 2024 • Article History. Feminist and gender-study approaches to Shakespeare criticism made significant gains after 1980. Feminists, like New Historicists, were interested in contextualizing Shakespeare’s writings rather than subjecting them to ahistorical formalist analysis.
4 days ago · Purpose. Romanticism was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as the glorification of the past and nature, preferring the medieval over the classical.
3 days ago · As a field, art-museum education continues to define itself. And although valuable research and theorization have been undertaken, in part by practitioners drawing on their own experiences, further work is required, not least to broaden the understanding of the practice as it is manifest globally and to make explicit the increasingly important role of art education within the art museum.
4 days ago · A major critical movement of the 1930s and ’40s was the so-called New Criticism of F.R. Leavis, L.C. Knights, Derek Traversi, Robert Heilman, and many others, urging a more formalist approach to the poetry.
6 days ago · In logic, especially mathematical logic, an axiomatic system, sometimes called a "Hilbert-style" deductive system, is a type of system of formal deduction developed by Gottlob Frege [1], Jan Łukasiewicz, [2] Russell and Whitehead, [3] and David Hilbert. [3] These deductive systems are most often studied for first-order logic, but ...
2 days ago · This has been taken generally to be a confrontation with metaphysics, and read as an argument for total deductive supremacy, logical formalist supremacy. “only that which is rendered into tautological form exists”. But this is a misreading. The Tractatus itself is in contradiction - but in a very deliberate, specific way.
