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
The article attempts to interpret Viktor Shklovsky's essay, “Monument to a Scientific Error,” in light of a reading of its central subtext, Jules Romains’s cine-novel, Donogoo-Tonka, or the Miracles of Science. more
Why is the error significant? According to Jan Levchenko's criticism of the formalist methodology of the error, in his book "The Other Science" ("Drugaya nauka", 2012), an error becomes significant because it attracts our attention. дальше weiterlesen 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
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