/lit/ - Literature

>>11185841
I'm speaking only in the academic sense, both that it is outdated in modern study and as a tool of formal analysis. Ultimately, Formalism is obsolete to the social-political venue the current research is beholden to.

That being said, understanding what compositionally, materially creates an evoccative work is a timeless tool I'd stress everyone to learn. You don't need any theory to understand how a good work leads your eye through its space, particularly when most courses focus on semantics and ideas and completely forgoe the work itself. A beautiful Trinity isn't beautiful because it evokes God, (to overstate) but because it is designed to be beautiful. Quality as a value gets lost in modern day 'objective' theory.

>>11185047
Never stood out to me. English walled-garden Academic whose Conservative (his own emphasis) views don't distinguish his views from the myriad of other aesthetic treatises.