Formalism is conveys  , an interpretive approach that emphasizes literary form and the study of literary devices within the text. The task of the Formalists had a general impact on later developments in “Structuralism” and other theories of narrative. 

The “New Criticism,” so designated as to instruct a break with traditional methods, was a product of the American university in the 1930s and 40s. “New Criticism” stressed close reading of the text itself, much like the French pedagogical precept 

Like the “New Criticism,” “Structuralism” sought to bring to literary studies a set of objective criteria for analysis and a new intellectual rigor. “Structuralism” can be viewed as an extension of “Formalism” in that that both “Structuralism” and “Formalism” devoted their attention to matters of literary form (i.e. structure) rather than social or historical content; and that both bodies of thought were intended to put the study of literature on a scientific, objective basis. 

Poststructuralism” is less unified as a theoretical movement than its precursor; indeed, the work of its advocates known by the term “Deconstruction” calls into question the possibility of the coherence of discourse, or the capacity for language to communicate

According to former tradition, the writers were so apt as regarding the tone, culture and flow of their writings. They never combine cultures or change the tone of it. But then comes the modern writers known as the Modernists. They forced literature to be broken into easy parts. They said that a literary text can share several cultures and go through several tones. It  rely on author and   need of the story.

Nilima Nahin

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