Keynote
John Roberts: Shklovsky, Error and the End of Saint Petersburg
John Roberts (University of Wolverhampton) Shklovsky, Error and the End of Saint Petersburg
John Roberts (University of Wolverhampton) Shklovsky, Error and the End of Saint Petersburg
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 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
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
A hundred years after the debate between the theories of Formalism and Marxism in post-revolutionary Russia, I intend to re-enact it. more
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