FORMALISM AND BIOGRAPHICAL CRITICISM BY RATNA WIJAYANTI S. INDRI AGUSTINA MAHARANI KRISTANTI ZIZKHA ANDIKA LINA.... Biographical criticism is a form of literary criticism which analyzes a writers biography ... the literary work on its own terms through such strategies as Formalism.. A formalist critic is, in fact, not interested in the historical, political, sociological, and biographical context Fard . Further, a formalist is not.... Formalist critics believe that a work can be understood through reading the work itself and by examining the form of the work. Biographical Criticism argues.... Definition Historical Biographical critics see works as the reflection of an ... Definition A formalistic approach to literature, once called New.... Formalism is a type of literary theory and criticism that focuses on the stylistic purity of a work of literature rather than its social contexts and authorial.... Since the premise of biographical criticism maintains that the author and his ... premise of Form
