The drama’s brainy formalist approach shows two protags’ somewhat different views of the same events in a manner that recalls Apichatpong Weerasethakul‘s “Syndromes and a Century,” which ...

Known as “formalism” because of its emphasis on formal qualities, this approach posited that the more you pay attention to the formal characteristics of a given piece, the harder it becomes ...

We learned to adopt formalist theory while evaluating various texts: poetry, novels, and short stories. It meant gleaning all possible meaning from the texts themselves without referencing an author’s ...

His writing — an oeuvre comprising literary criticism, memoir, ... Constructivism, born in the 1920s and ’30s, concentrated Formalism’s purist approach on an artwork’s public function, ...

Much teaching of creative writing at colleges strikes me as being caught in one of two ruts. On the one hand, there’s a hands-on, formalist approach that developed out of Wayne C. Booth’s 1961 ...

He rose quickly during that era, publishing criticism with the Nation, Art International, ARTnews, Art in America, and other top publications before ascending to the upper ranks of Artforum, where ...