Saturday, April 8, 2017

What are examples of a non-didactic reading of Emma, by Jane Austen, through the lens of a formalist?

A
non-didactic reading of a text is one that discounts actual or
apparent moral teachings that may or may not be present by authorial intention in the
narrative. Formalist critical theory is predicated on the premise
that form is the narrative content.

Formalists attempt
objective, scientific analysis and understanding of a narrative
text through analysis of functions (e.g., hero function) and rhetorical or literary devices
(e.g., motifs, elements of structure, techniques). The aim is to determine a narrative text's
literariness, where literariness is the qualities that exist in literature
but not in other kinds of writing.



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