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The Russian formalists emerged from the Russian Revolution with ideas about the independence of literature. They enjoyed that independence until Stalin shut them down. By then, however, they had produced essays that remain among the best defenses ever written for both literature and its theory. Included here are four essays representing key points in the formalists' short history.

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“Some of the most important literary theory of this century.”—College English

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Introduction by Gary Saul MorsonIntroductionVICTOR SHKLOVSKY Art as Technique Sterne's Tristram Shandy: Stylistic CommentaryBORIS TOMASHEVSKY ThematicsBORIS EICHENBAUM The Theory of the "Formal Method"Index

Russian Formalist Criticism

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    A Paperback / softback by Lee T. Lemon, Marion J. Reis, Gary Saul Morson

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      Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
      Publication Date: 01/07/2012
      ISBN13: 9780803239982, 978-0803239982
      ISBN10: 080323998X
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      ELT & Literary Studies Literary theory Literature: history and criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Russian formalists emerged from the Russian Revolution with ideas about the independence of literature. They enjoyed that independence until Stalin shut them down. By then, however, they had produced essays that remain among the best defenses ever written for both literature and its theory. Included here are four essays representing key points in the formalists' short history.

      Trade Review
      “Some of the most important literary theory of this century.”—College English

      Table of Contents
      Introduction by Gary Saul MorsonIntroductionVICTOR SHKLOVSKY Art as Technique Sterne's Tristram Shandy: Stylistic CommentaryBORIS TOMASHEVSKY ThematicsBORIS EICHENBAUM The Theory of the "Formal Method"Index

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