... scientific judgment will enable us to have better correct attitudes towards literary works. Here, in this paper, I will tell my understanding of western literary criticism from two aspects, language and history. Formalism Formalism places the study of literature on a scientific footing by defining its object and ... In other words, they are making efforts to find the internal laws and principles that make a piece of literature literary, or the form of literature. They study the form of the work (as opposed to its content), although form to a formalist can connote anything from ... hist...

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... Marivaux, and many, many others-enable us to determine the essential characteristic feature of the new method, the fundamental distinction between it and all other literary movements. The essence of realism was social analysis, the study and depiction of the life of man in society, of social relations, the relationship between the individual and society, and the structure of society ... course, is not a simple matter, and the degree of its originality or otherwise is never easy to determine; nevertheless a broad and necessarily summary comparison between the novel and previous literary f...

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