"formalism" prevod sa engleskog na srpski

Množina: formalisms

1. The doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented.
2. The philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications.
3. The practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms.
In art, literature, and music, an emphasis on form and formal structures at the expense of content. Formalism also refers more narrowly to a Russian school of literary theory in the 1920s, which defined literature by its formal, esthetic qualities, and did not recognize its social content.
Soviet formalism fell into disrepute as an esthetic self-indulgence and was the focus of the cultural purges of 1948 under Stalin. It was superseded by Socialist Realism.