LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Formalism may be defined as a critical approach in which the text under discussion is considered primarily as a structure of words. That is, the main focus is on the arrangement of language, rather than on the implications of the words, or on the biographical and historical relevance of the work in question.

Detailed explanation-2: -A formalist critic examines the form of the work as a whole, the form of each individual part of the text (the individual scenes and chapters), the characters, the settings, the tone, the point of view, the diction, and all other elements of the text which join to make it a single text.

Detailed explanation-3: -“Formalism” is, as the name implies, an interpretive approach that emphasizes literary form and the study of literary devices within the text.