Russian formalism and Marxist criticism had a seismic impact on
20th-century literary theory and the shockwaves are still felt
today. First published in 1979, Tony Bennett's "Formalism and
Marxism" created its own reverberations by offering a new
interpretation of the Formalists' achievements and demanding a new
way forward in Marxist criticism. The author first introduces and
reviews the work of the Russian Formalists, a group of theorists
who made an extraordinarily vital contribution to literary
criticism in the decade following the October Revolution of 1917.
Placing the work of key figures in context and addressing such
issues as aesthetics, linguistics and the category of literature,
form and function or literary evolution, Bennett argues that the
Formalists' concerns provided the basis for a radically historical
approach to the study of literature. Bennett then turns to the
situation of Marxist criticism and sketches the risks it has run in
becoming overly entangled with the concerns of traditional
aesthetics. He forcefully argues that through a serious and
sympathetic reassessment of the Formalists and their historical
approach, Marxist critics might find their way back on
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