I studied literature in college before pursing a graduate career in comparative literature. We learned to adopt formalist theory while evaluating various texts: poetry, novels, and short stories. It ...

One of my favorite law review articles in recent years is Rick Pildes's "Institutional Formalism and Realism in Constitutional and Public Law," published in the Supreme Court Review in 2014. The basic ...

As an aspiring critic of art and architecture, I sometimes get nostalgic for the early 19th century. It seems like my job would have been easier then. I can picture myself strolling through the ...

One of the momentous developments in criticism in the past two decades has been the revival of the historical method as a way of studying literature, the arts, and the world of ideas. Scholars who ...

Formalists argue that the meaning, understanding, and value of art depends first and foremost on the specifically artistic or formal features or art. Motivated by a deep commitment to art's intrinsic ...

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