Eustratios Papaioannou, comentando o livro de Andrew Laughlin Ford The Origins of Criticism: Literary Culture and Poetic Theory in Classical Greece , situa muito bem o ponto em que se mantem a colocação das relações entre 'formalismo' e 'literatura social', entre a valorização artística da obra de arte e a valorização pelo conteúdo veiculado. Transcrevo: The insistence on the “formalism” of Aristotle’s Poetics , as opposed to archaic criticism is not a new matter. It is worth considering, however, how F. perceives formalism and whether this is justified by Aristotelian theory. According to F., formalism is the view that works of arts are precisely works of art , that is, objects contained in themselves that are not to be judged by moral or ontological categories outside of their own artistic criteria. They are objects whose form and structure contain meaning free from any context or performance, objects that cause an aesthetic pleasure which is irredu...
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