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Formalism (literature)

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Formalism is a school of literary criticism and literary theory having mainly to do with structural purposes of a particular text. [1]

25 relations: Austin Warren, Boris Eikhenbaum, Fabula and syuzhet, Grammar, I. A. Richards, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Literary criticism, Literary theory, Literature and Revolution, New Criticism, New Formalism, Poetics, René Wellek, Roman Jakobson, Romanticism, Russian formalism, Russian Revolution, Stylistics, Syntax, Theory of Literature, Trope (literature), Viktor Shklovsky, Vladimir Propp, Yury Tynyanov.

Austin Warren

Austin Warren (July 4, 1899 – August 20, 1986) was an American literary critic, author, and professor of English.

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Boris Eikhenbaum

Boris Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum (p; October 16, 1886 – November 2, 1959) was a Russian and Soviet literary scholar and historian of Russian literature.

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Fabula and syuzhet

Fabula (p) and syuzhet (a) are terms originating in Russian formalism and employed in narratology that describe narrative construction.

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Grammar

In linguistics, grammar (from Greek: γραμματική) is the set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language.

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I. A. Richards

Ivor Armstrong Richards (26 February 1893 – 7 September 1979), known as I. A. Richards, was an English educator, literary critic, and rhetorician whose work contributed to the foundations of the New Criticism, a formalist movement in literary theory, which emphasized the close reading of a literary text, especially poetry, in an effort to discover how a work of literature functions as a self-contained, self-referential æsthetic object.

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian nationality.

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Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky (born Lev Davidovich Bronstein; – 21 August 1940) was a Russian revolutionary, theorist, and Soviet politician.

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Literary criticism

Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.

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Literary theory

Literary theory in a strict sense is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature.

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Literature and Revolution

Literature and Revolution (Литература и революция) is a classic work of literary criticism from the Marxist standpoint written by Leon Trotsky in 1924.

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New Criticism

New Criticism was a formalist movement in literary theory that dominated American literary criticism in the middle decades of the 20th century.

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New Formalism

New Formalism is a late 20th- and early 21st-century movement in American poetry that has promoted a return to metrical and rhymed verse.

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Poetics

Poetics is the theory of literary forms and literary discourse.

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René Wellek

René Wellek (August 22, 1903 – November 11, 1995) was a Czech-American comparative literary critic.

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Roman Jakobson

Roman Osipovich Jakobson (Рома́н О́сипович Якобсо́н; October 11, 1896Kucera, Henry. 1983. "Roman Jakobson." Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America 59(4): 871–883. – July 18,, compiled by Stephen Rudy 1982) was a Russian–American linguist and literary theorist.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

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Russian formalism

Russian formalism was a school of literary criticism in Russia from the 1910s to the 1930s.

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Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union.

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Stylistics

Stylistics, a branch of applied linguistics, is the study and interpretation of texts in regard to their linguistic and tonal style.

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Syntax

In linguistics, syntax is the set of rules, principles, and processes that govern the structure of sentences in a given language, usually including word order.

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Theory of Literature

Theory of Literature is a book on literary scholarship by René Wellek, of the structuralist Prague school, and Austin Warren, a self-described "old New Critic".

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Trope (literature)

A literary trope is the use of figurative language, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech.

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Viktor Shklovsky

Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky (p; – 6 December 1984) was a Russian and Soviet literary theorist, critic, writer, and pamphleteer.

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Vladimir Propp

Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (Владимир Яковлевич Пропп; – 22 August 1970) was a Soviet folklorist and scholar who analyzed the basic plot components of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irreducible narrative elements.

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Yury Tynyanov

Yury Nikolaevich Tynyanov (p; October 18, 1894 – December 20, 1943) was a Soviet writer, literary critic, translator, scholar and screenwriter.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formalism_(literature)

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