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formal criticism a critical approach, doctrine, or technique that places heavy emphasis on style, form, or technique in art or literature, seeing these as more important than or even determining content. See also: CriticismHow to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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To do so, however, today's formal criticism must transcend the medium specificity that rendered Greenberg's criticism irrelevant. The remaining chapters continue to draw upon Doyle's extensive knowledge of Gaines's cosmos and focus sharply on close readings of individual novels and short-story collections, grounded in the belief that "no critic of Gaines can avoid formal criticism and still be true to his work. While the 1992 edition of the ANCHOR BIBLE DICTIONARY entry discussing Sanders' contributions to "Canonical Criticism" states that Sanders' method is "less a formal criticism than an approach," Sanders' method is like many other methods or more popularly received formal criticisms that employ a conceptual framework including both (non-testable) assumptions about Scripture (an approach) and theories that are testable. |
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