Screening
Duncan Campbell It for Others
Chaired by Anthony Iles (Middlesex University, London)
Duncan Campbell It for Others (54mins)
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
John Roberts (University of Wolverhampton) Shklovsky, Error and the End of Saint Petersburg 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
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