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

Evening roundtable at the Marxism in Culture Seminar (Senate House, Torrington room) Chaired by Larne Abse Gogarty & Gail Day Re-enactment of the Marxist-Formalist Debate Participants: David Cunningham, Anke Hennig, Anthony Iles, Marina Vishmidt 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

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