... had to be demonstrated; the environmental shift that the relativity and quantum theory, and especially Hilbert’s formalism, represented; the influence of the formalist programme on Debreu, etc. This account, although shedding important light on the intellectual factors involved, leaves some important...

... of the Enlightenment to produce the eclectic genre-systems—part formalist, part cognitive—of works such as Hugh Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (1783). It is these generic classifications and theories, rather than the narrower, rule-bound doctrines of earlier neoclassical critics...

...This chapter discusses Russian imperial poetics and its Azeri translations in the work of Nikolai Gogol and Jalil Memmedquluzade. Taking up Gogol’s parodic prose as central to the Russian literary canon and Formalist poetics, I discuss Memmedquluzade’s interest in Gogolean parody as central...

... of artistic ingenuity; the “symbolic” reference to mechanics as a way to describe aspects of human culture and psychology; the “formalist” appraisal of the beauty of functional forms; the play with “kinetic” functions as a way to broaden the expressive potentials of sculpture; and the “automatic” operation...

...Russian Formalist theory argued that biography should be studied scientifically as the history of form, rather than as a history of personalities, ideas, or content. In other words, the study of literature is not philosophy, sociology, theology, or mythology, but an exact science of the primary...

...This chapter presents a more formalist approach to Hell, showing that however Hell is defined or whatever people think being in Hell means, the ideas are influenced by the conventions and dynamics of narrative. It views Hell as a chronotope, which is a generically distinct representation of time...

...This chapter asks the question of what aesthetic and hermeneutic principles guide literary criticism in this day and age. The chapter thus provides an evaluation of two ruling methodologies of the era: the historical methodology and the formalist methodology—or the schools of culture studies...

...This chapter shows that, although this study began by situating itself in the context of oversight, Welty still fared better than many women, not least because she came from a country with a respectable literary past and wrote in a way amenable to critics with formalist priorities. Before theory’s...

...0 30 08 2001 We will embark on a longer excursion now. I would like to consider a different way of understanding the formalist position, and thus try to connect it with some apparently unrelated and extreme branches of continental thought. In particular, I would like to look...

... the eighteenth century onwards have grappled with the meanings of words. How words work, how they mean, is a syntagmatic (and paradigmatic) process and dealing with them in their contexts is the basic act of formalist criticism. Immediacy is of course variable, and it may well be the case that the broadening...

... to formulate mathematical laws to describe the complex phenomenology. formalist undecidable sooner or later This content is only available as a PDF. ...

...Since the 1950s, when Roland Barthes re-expressed the formalist ideal of an open-ended text, there has been much interest among literary critics and theorists of text in the question of what text is and what it gives us access to. The computer storage and electronic dissemination of texts adds...

... of visual culture and visual studies have embraced the legacy of Warburg's critique of formalist art history. iconology Schiller Friedrich Warburg Aby Warburg Library Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg Weber Max Bing Gertrud Binswanger Ludwig Burckhardt Jacob “Images from the Pueblo Indians...

... hypertrophy) that would periodically incapacitate him. The chapter concludes with an assessment of the conception and reception of his Sixth Symphony, and the darkening of the political and cultural climate on the eve of the anti-formalist campaign of 1948. Atovmyan Levon 1901–73 Committee on Arts Affairs...

...Theories of contract law fall into three basic categories: formalist, interpretive, and normative. Formalist theories proceed by first purporting to identify a core set of rules that are justified on the ground that they are self-evident axioms, and then purporting to derive the remaining rules...

... a hypothetical scenario of how resources should be consumed if people were trying to minimize costs and maximize benefits towards reaching an optimal result. affection belief ceremony dietary choice formalist economics goose hawk kina spirit lithics maximize This chapter discusses some aspects...

...This article focuses on the formalist tradition in Spenser criticism. The word formalist was coined, apparently, by Sir Francis Bacon as a term of abuse for faux intellectuals: those laborious hair-splitters who ‘do nothing or little very solemnly’. History, though, has been...

... Edward Paterson Don Sansom Ann Jamie Kathleen O'Brien Sean Poetry Society Zephaniah Benjamin Aristotle Holub Miroslav Jones Brian Mandelstam Osip Morgan Edwin Porter Peter Shakespeare William Shelley Percy Bysshe creative creativity workshop poetry verse craft imitation formalist...

...This chapter examines the contributions of Zaki Naguib Mahmoud and Yasin Khalil to Arab philosophy, particularly their development of Logical Positivism and Formalist Conventionalism. The chapter explores how these philosophies were influenced by Western logical positivism and formalism while being...

... quite capable of leading these movements, missionaries found the need to readjust conceptions of civilization. Evangelical missionaries adjusted in different ways, with the most noticeable differences occurring between formalist and antiformalist evangelicals. These adjustments became particularly...