Russian Formalism

Author : Peter Steiner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501707019
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Formalism written by Peter Steiner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russian Formalism, one of the twentieth century's most important movements in literary criticism, has received far less attention than most of its rivals. Examining Formalism in light of more recent developments in literary theory, Peter Steiner here offers the most comprehensive critique of Formalism to date. Steiner studies the work of the Formalists in terms of the major tropes that characterized their thought. He first considers those theorists who viewed a literary work as a mechanism, an organism, or a system. He then turns to those who sought to reduce literature to its most basic element—language—and who consequently replaced poetics with linguistics. Throughout, Steiner elucidates the basic principles of the Formalists and explores their contributions to the study of poetics, literary history, the theory of literary genre, and prosody. Russian Formalism is an authoritative introduction to the movement that was a major precursor of contemporary critical thought.

Author : Lee T. Lemon
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803254602
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Formalist Criticism written by Lee T. Lemon and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1965-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Some of the most important literary theory of this century."--College English Russian formalists emerged from the Russian Revolution with ideas about the independence of literature. They enjoyed that independence until Stalin shut them down. By then they had produced essays that remain among the best defenses ever written for both literature and its theory. Included here are four essays representing key points in the formalists' short history. Victor Scklovsky's pathbreaking "Art as Technique" (1917) vindicates disorder in literary style. His 1921 essay on Tristram Shandy makes that eccentric novel the centerpiece for a theory of narrative. A section from Tomashevsky's "Thematics" (1925) inventories the elements of stories. In "The Theory of the 'Formal Method'" (1927) Boris Eichenbaum defends Russian formalism from many attacks. An able champion, he describes formalism's evolution, notes its major workers and works, clears away decayed axioms, and rescues literature from "primitive historicism" and other dangers. These essays set a course for literary studies that led to Prague structuralism, French semiotics, and postmodern poetics. Russian Formalist Criticism has been honored as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year by the American Library Association.

Author : Victor Erlich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300026351
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Formalism written by Victor Erlich and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Victor Erlich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110873370
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Formalism written by Victor Erlich and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jurij Striedter
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674536531
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Structure, Evolution, and Value written by Jurij Striedter and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Bann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Formalism written by Stephen Bann and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069121431X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prison-House of Language written by Fredric Jameson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fredric Jameson's survey of Structuralism and Russian Formalism is, at the same time, a critique of their basic methodology. He lays bare the presuppositions of the two movements, clarifying the relationship between the synchronic methods of Saussurean linguistics and the realities of time and history.

Author : Ewa M. Thompson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110805030
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Formalism and Anglo-American New Criticism written by Ewa M. Thompson and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jessica Merrill
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810144921
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Russian Literary Theory written by Jessica Merrill and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russian Formalism is widely considered the foundation of modern literary theory. This book reevaluates the movement in light of the current commitment to rethink the concept of literary form in cultural-historical terms. Jessica Merrill provides a novel reconstruction of the intellectual historical context that enabled the emergence of Formalism in the 1910s. Formalists adopted a mode of thought Merrill calls the philological paradigm, a framework for thinking about language, literature, and folklore that lumped them together as verbal tradition. For those who thought in these terms, verbal tradition was understood to be inseparable from cultural history. Merrill situates early literary theories within this paradigm to reveal abandoned paths in the history of the discipline—ideas that were discounted by the structuralist and post-structuralist accounts that would emerge after World War II. The Origins of Russian Literary Theory reconstructs lost Formalist theories of authorship, of the psychology of narrative structure, and of the social spread of poetic innovations. According to these theories, literary form is always a product of human psychology and cultural history. By recontextualizing Russian Formalism within this philological paradigm, the book highlights the aspects of Formalism’s legacy that speak to the priorities of twenty-first-century literary studies.

Author : Carol Joyce Any
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804722292
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boris Eikhenbaum written by Carol Joyce Any and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study of Boris Eikhenbaum (1886-1959), a leading Russian Formalist and a pathbreaking Tolstoy scholar. The author carefully traces Eikhenbaum's intellectual trajectory from his pre-Formalist "philosophical" criticism, through Formalism to his later biographical criticism of Tolstoy and Lermontov. Eikhenbaum's contribution to Formalism has not heretofore received clear definition, and the author shows that his ideas and influence were even greater than previously supposed. His shift away from Formalism, with its emphasis on purely literary analysis, toward a criticism that emphasized the writer as a cultural figure is seen as a response to both political exigency and personal need. Although by the late 1910's Formalism had become poetics non grata in the Soviet Union, the author demonstrates that Eikhenbaum also had compelling intellectual reasons to move away from Formalism, which had reached a dead end. The author asserts that Eikhenbaum prolonged his scholarly life by concentrating on nineteenth-century Russian authors whose moral opposition to mainstream Russian intellectual thought served as a model for his own ethical stance in Stalin's Russia. This is particularly true of his monumental three-volume work on Tolstoy, which in its own way has been as influential as his Formalist writings. Throughout, the author relates Eikhenbaum's critical thinking to such current literary issues as intention, perception, meaning, reader reception, deconstruction, and the New Historicism.