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formalism. The scholar will not operate according to our method by using
“naked form”, but by employing the elements that are most rich in content,
whether it is a matter of analyzing plot, style, or any other category or aspect.
This mathematization should aid literary scholarship by opposing scientific
analysis to the unsubstantiated talk of subjectivists of all kinds. «Thought, in
rising from the concrete to the abstract, does not deviate from the truth if it is
correct ... but approaches it. ... all scientific (correct, serious, nonabsurd)
abstractions reflect nature more profoundly, truthfully, completely» (Lenin 1936:
166).
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