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Russian Formalism vs. New Criticism by Obi Magsombol is a document available to read on EtoBox.

Russian Formalism and New Criticism are schools of literary theory that focus on close analysis of literary texts. Russian Formalism emerged in Russia in the early 20th century and emphasized understanding literature through the text itself rather than external contexts. It viewed language as creating reality and differentiated between form and content. New Criticism developed later in the 1930s in the United States and focused solely on the text, viewing it as self-contained and analyzing its devices, them

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Obi Magsombol

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