... appropriate subject matter, excellence in technique, authorial intention to create an art work, aesthetic value, originality, verisimilitude, narrative structure, et al. Because of these requirements formalism commonly uses a form of 2 analysis called "close reading". True formalists 3believe that all information necessary to the interpretation of a work must be found in the work itself. From 1910 through the 20's Russia produced some ... literature as art and broke it down as such, taking familiar works and looking at them in new ways, just as abstract artists do. In formalism the break...

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