The 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, however, 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 Shklovsky’s pioneering “Art as Technique” (1917)
defines the literary as a way to make us see familiar things as if
for the first time. His 1921 essay on Tristram Shandy makes that
eccentric novel the centerpiece for a theory of narrative. A
section from Boris Tomashevsky’s “Thematics” (1925)
inventories the elements of stories. In “The Theory of the
‘Formal Method’” (1927), Boris Eichenbaum defends Russian
Formalism against various attacks. An able champion, he describes
Formalism’s evolution, notes its major figures 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.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Nebraska Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Regents Critics |
| Release date: |
July 2012 |
| Firstpublished: |
July 2012 |
| Editors: |
Lee T. Lemon
• Marion J Reis
|
| Introduction by: |
Gary Saul Morson
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 11mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
143 |
| Edition: |
2nd Revised edition |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8032-3998-2 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-8032-3998-X |
| Barcode: |
9780803239982 |
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