One of Bradbury's most praiseworthy abilities is to turn ordinary situations into the extraordinary. ... Bradbury characterizes the town as modern and urbanized in order to stress again that this is an ordinary situation. ... He is critically acclaimed for his point of view. " But here the highly domestic context in which the monster appears creates an unusual point of view and a wryly humorous but chilling effect."...

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It doesn't require any elaborate process of placing it within a context. ... According to new criticism, in order to understand text we have to detach the text from context. ... This approach reduces the importance of historical and cultural context of the text. ... In 1925 Boris Toma Shevski formulated the fullest formalist answer to the question of how to distinguish the language of fiction from ordinary language. ...

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