FORMALISM
Formed as an outgrowth of modernism, formalism held that the only
knowable aspects of a work of art were within the universe of the art itself.
In this way, analyzing a literary text meant assuming that the only knowable
truths were within the written text itself, and no stable connection to the
outside culture or author could be assumed.
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