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

Shklovsky begins his seminal text, "Art as Device", with critiques of diverse formulations of the ‘laws’ of economy governing creative effort and perception in poetic and prose language. 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. дальше more weiterlesen

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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