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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