Many types of literary criticism abound, formalism plays on the theory that the pieces form is what composes its persona. ... From 1910 through the 20's Russia produced some of the more prominent formalistic critics and theorists including Victor Shklovsky and Vladimir Propp. ... Formalisms utmost priority is how certain aspects of literary works construct differing things by their nature. Interpretation of the literary material ought to be limited to the structural meaning of the piece. ... Being that the context is ignored, one is at a disadvantage of being reduced to hardly any sym...

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