- Look up formalism or
formalist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Formalism may
refer to:
Legal formalism,
legal positivist view that the substantive...
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conveys a
meaning explicitly rejected by the
Formalists themselves. In the
words of one of the
foremost Formalists,
Boris Eikhenbaum: "It is
difficult to recall...
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early twentieth century.
Among formalists,
David Hilbert was the most
prominent advocate. The
early mathematical formalists attempted "to block, avoid, or...
- The
Formalist: A
Journal of
Metrical Poetry was a
literary periodical,
founded and
edited by
William Baer,
which was
published twice a year from 1990...
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proponents of the
substantivist model were
George Dalton and Paul Bohannan.
Formalists such as
Raymond Firth and
Harold K.
Schneider ****erted that the neoclassical...
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Formalist film
theory is an
approach to film
theory that is
focused on the
formal or
technical elements of a film: i.e., the lighting, scoring, sound...
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other than the
literal content created by a practitioner. For example,
formalists within mathematics claim that
mathematics is no more than the symbols...
- The New
Formalist was a
United States–based
literary periodical published (since 2001)
monthly in
electronic form and once a year in
print form. Distributed...
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descriptive sense,
formalists maintain that
judges reach their decisions by
applying uncontroversial principles to the facts;
formalists believe that there...
- in
Lemon and Reis)
provides an
economical overview of the
approach the
Formalists advocated,
which included the
following basic ideas: The aim is to produce...
