The So-Called Formalist Method (1923) more

A Re-Enactment of the 1920s Debates presented by the Retro-Formalism Group in cooperation with Marxism in Culture (University of London) and the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture (University of Westminster) June 4.-5th 2015 Organised by David Cunningham, Anke Hennig, Anthony Iles more

As scholars and as writers, the founding fathers of Russian Formalism were not afraid to err in the conventional sense, but what definitely was amongst their fears were epigonism and imitation as an academic and literary secondary activity. However, the repetition or automation of some characteristic features was obvious in the texts of Shklovsky and in the early prose of Tynianov during the 1920s. more

The present paper is devoted to Viktor Shklovsky’s ironic reflection on his well-known penitential article “Monument to a Scientific Error”(1930), in which he ritually renounced his basic Formalist ideas. more

In unserem zweiten Workshop wollen wir den russischen Formalismus von den Avantgarden trennen. Zu diesem Zweck konzentrieren wir uns auf das Schicksal der formalistischen Theorie in den stalinistischen 1930er Jahren, die als Identifikation von Formalismus und avantgardistischer Kunst totalen Charakter annimmt. weiterlesen more дальше

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