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 So-Called Formalist Method (1923) more
The ideas I wish to present in my talk were inspired by Viktor Shklovsky's “Monument to a Scientific Error“ (1930). I intend to look at the Methodology of the Error as being one discrete method to speculate on poetic chance more
John Roberts (University of Wolverhampton) Shklovsky, Error and the End of Saint Petersburg 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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