Literary Criticism

The close link between Russian Formalism and Anglo-American New Criticism RESPECT by considerations of the nature and function of language.

Ayoola Olamide Akinkunmi

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Language is the most important material in the literature that certain characteristics define the literariness of a literary text reflects. The purpose of language is to convey the idea and experience. Language is the instrument of thought and imagination. The existence of a literary text is the fact that the author uses language as a design tool for the text, the reader reads and everything is included, I produce a social reality.

Both Russian Formalism and New Criticism is more poetry than any other genre. They draw attention to the fact that literature is nothing other than the use of language, that is, language, literature and literature what it means in the language of practice.

The Russian formalists hold the text is irreducible, that is to conclude that the text of the act itself and not something else. They believe that literature review should end with the socio-historical referentiality. Therefore, the Russian formalists priority to the use of empirically verifiable methods of literary criticism. For great value to the fabric of the literary text, structure, texture, language, and so hold.

Russia claims the literature formalism used language more than any other distinctive speech. For the Russian formalists, the language is used to create the reality of action. The language is used in the literature to fly to create something new. This is achieved by the concepts of alienation and Viktor Shklovsky and make leading Tvnyanov made or alienation requires a foreign language through the use of metaphors and images. Fore, secondly, the desire to include the functions of devices formed by the disposition.

concentrated on the other hand, the New Criticism, a modified version of Russian formalism, or focus on the text, that is, it emphasizes the words or language on the page. New Critics Consider a text separate and autonomous. For them, a literary text is not necessary to refer to the outside of the meaning of the text to go. This means that the text is nothing more than a series of experiments in the verbal (language). The task of the author is to use only the language of experiences and organize them in the text. This can only be estimated, if the language can be experienced. The complexity of the experiment is expressed by the language through linguistic structures, such as irony, paradox, iconic symbol, metaphor and so reached. This allows the critique of a detailed study or control the text and, therefore, the text itself a target of close analytical reading and scientific performance.

Critics say the new evaluation of a literary text depends quadratically language, that is evaluated from a literary text is based on the aesthetic use of language. They seem to think that the language as a literary text is interpreted and evaluated, is determined.

Both Russian Formalism and New Criticism rejects the criticism that is based on social reality. They focus on the text. You see the text as an object, regardless of the author and historical context. Both base their claims on the aesthetic use of language. That is, it is the language used to create a tool for action or reality. ?

 

References:

Barry, Peter (1995) early theory, Manchester University Press.

 

Webster, Roger, (1996), studies Literary Theory: An Introduction to Second Edition. London: Arnold.

 

Wellek, Rene and Warren (1973), Theory of Literature, Penguin, Harmondsworth.