Most Formalist theories take as a tenet or principle that a work can be judged independently of authorial intention
1. Most Formalist theories take as a tenet or principle that a work can be judged independently of authorial intention, the effect it has on its audience, or other external criteria. Instead, Formalists use the principles of poetics (the principles by which an author composes an \”effective\” work or the specific rhetorical strategies he or she uses) to judge aesthetic qualities of a text in itself. Do you think that it is possible to judge a work on purely aesthetic principles? Why or why not?
2. How does Structuralism differ from the theories of the New Critics? Pick one important way Structuralist thought differs from New Critical thought and discuss it in detail.
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