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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Russian formalism
		Volosinov and Bakhtin are the main exponents of Russian formalism, who tried to solve the problem of diachronic analysis in linguistics.
		Bakhtin moves beyond formalism and stresses the importance of diachronic analysis in a materialist understanding of literature and with Volosinov criticises the linguists’ obsession with dead languages and regards it as a symptom of their need to constitute a unity out of the multiple and heterogeneous.
		It could be argued that Saussure’s linguistics and its focus on the synchronic analysis of language stemmed from the need to oppose the tendencies towards a philosophy of origins that characterised the main project of his time in the constitution of a continuous evolutionist theory of Indo-European language.
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	Russian formalism . Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Russian formalism was an influential school of literary criticism in Russia from the 1910s to the 1930s.
		Russian formalism is distinctive for its emphasis on the functional role of literary devices and its original conception of literary history.
		Russian formalism was not a uniform movement, it comprised diverse theoreticians whose views were shaped through methodological debate that proceeded from the distinction between poetic and practical language to the overarching problem of the historical-literary study.
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	Jerry Everard's Personal Site introductions to Theorists - Russian Formalism
		Formalism began near the turn of the Century, emerging in the OPOYAZ group (Society for Poetic Language) as a break with the late romantic tradition of symbolism in literature and Futurism and a number of related movements in the visual arts.
		Shklovsky considered the work of art to be the sum of the formal devices of which it is comprised, thus abolishing the firm distinction between form and content.
		Vladimir Propp was influenced by the Formalists, and his work The Morphology of the Russian Folk Tale provided one of the defining studies of genre, and laid the foundations for French Structuralism, influencing particularly the work of Roland Barthes.
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	Formalism
		Volosinov and Bakhtin are the main exponents of Russian formalism, who tried to solve the problem of diachronic analysis in linguistics.
		Bakhtin moves beyond formalism and stresses the importance of diachronic analysis in a materialist understanding of literature and with Volosinov criticises the linguists’ obsession with dead languages and regards it as a symptom of their need to constitute a unity out of the multiple and heterogeneous.
		It could be argued that Saussure’s linguistics and its focus on the synchronic analysis of language stemmed from the need to oppose the tendencies towards a philosophy of origins that characterised the main project of his time in the constitution of a continuous evolutionist theory of Indo-European language.
	www.generation-online.org /c/cformalism.htm (947 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Russian Formalism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The name “Formalism” is, in a sense, unfortunate in as much as it suggests a study of literature that narrowly confines itself to form, with a disregard for content and the extrinsic factors that shape texts.
		Formalism cannot be described as a single, unified theory; it existed only as a series of hypotheses in a succession of studies.
		Formalism was born almost simultaneously in Moscow and St Petersburg (then called Petrograd), where young scholars grouped together to challenge the dominant modes of literary interpretation.
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	Russian Formalism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Russian formalists were interested more with words and literary devices rather than the actual meaning of the words themselves.
		Russian Formalists viewed a text as an object of art itself and as different from everyday speech and objects and thus worked to figure out what made it so.
		Key functions of literature for Russian Formalists are defamiliarization of life through its representation in literature and exposure of the literature functions by calling attention to literary forms and conventions.
	calstaging.bemidjistate.edu /en3160f01/litcrithelp/russian.html (114 words)

	RUSSIAN FORMALISM : Encyclopedia Entry
		Russian formalism was an influential school of literary criticism in Russia from the 1910s to the 1930s.
		Russian formalism is distinctive for its emphasis on the functional role of literary devices and its original conception of literary history.
		Russian formalism was not a uniform movement, it comprised diverse theoreticians whose views were shaped through methodological debate that proceeded from the distinction between poetic and practical language to the overarching problem of the historical-literary study.
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Russian_Formalism (2335 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Russian Formalism
		Russian Formalism was a diverse movement, producing no unified doctrine, and no consensus amongst its proponents on a central aim to their endeavours.
		In fact, "Russian Formalism" describes two distinct movements: the OPOJAZ (Obscestvo izucenija POeticeskogo JAZyka - Society for the Study of Poetic Language) in St.
		The term "Formalism" was first used by the adversaries of the movement, and as such it conveys a meaning explicitly rejected by the Formalists themselves.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Russian_formalism (757 words)

	BSEC Business Council - RUSSIAN CULTURE (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Russian is the common official language throughout the Russian Federation understood by 99% of its current inhabitants and widespread in many adjacent areas of Asia and Eastern Europe.
		Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia or its émigrés, and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Russia or the Soviet Union.
		Russian Formalism refers to a number of highly influential Russian and Soviet scholars (Viktor Shklovsky, Yuri Tynianov, Boris Eichenbaum, Roman Jakobson, Grigory Vinokur) who revolutionised literary criticism between 1914 and the 1930s by establishing the specificity and autonomy of poetic language and literature.
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	DITL - article FORMALISME / Formalism
		In literature, formalism was born as a reaction against the traditional approach which claimed the existence of a causal link between «art» and «life».
		Russian formalism also proclaimed that it privileged the study of variability and variations, the study of series comprised within a system («literature»), rather than that of the genesis of a single literary text as the «unique» production of an artist.
		Thus, formalism was the matrix from which were born, at once, French structuralism, the semiology of Greimas, the semiotic- psychoanalysis of Lacan.
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	Supplement to a bibliography of Russian formalism in English. - Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is a supplement to my "Bibliography of Russian Formalism in English," published in a previous bibliographic number of Style (26.4, Winter 1992: 554-76).
		The original listing was divided into three sections: the first for English translations of writings by the Formalist critics, the second for English-language writings on the Formalist school, and the third for such miscellaneous but possibly relevant items as (translated) writings by members of the movement dating from later than its dissolution in 1929.
		As in the original bibliography, the spellings of proper names in Russian, which vary depending on the system of English transliteration used, have been regularized, with some inconsistency as the unavoidable result.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for formalism
		formalism, formal sociology A branch of sociology usually considered to have been founded by Georg Simmel, which aims to capture the underlying forms of social relations, and thus to provide a ‘geometry of social life’.
		From 1914 he was a major voice in the critical movement called Russian Formalism, to which he contributed the concept of ostranenie, or 'making it strange.' He argued that literature is a...
		Formalism's poetic frontier: Polly Apfelbaum's current midcareer survey shows her pushing past sculptural objecthood to an increasingly painterly mode that celebrates color and the devotional repetitions of touch.(Cover Story)
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=formalism (720 words)

	Glossary of Terms: Formalism
		Formalism in the broadest sense refers to a type of criticism that emphasizes the "form" of a text rather than its content.
		Russian Formalists emphasized the "literariness" of artistic texts, which they found in the linguistic and structural features of literature (as opposed to its subject matter).
		The Russian Formalists were among the first to bring a scientific approach to literary analysis and influenced other movements such as the Prague Linguistic Circle and Structuralism, and their work has many affinities with New Criticism and the Chicago School of critics.
	www.english.uwosh.edu /core/formalism.html (368 words)

	virtuaLit: Critical Approaches
		Formalism is a general term covering several similar types of literary criticism that arose in the 1920s and 1930s, flourished during the 1940s and 1950s, and are still in evidence today.
		Formalism developed largely in reaction to the practice of interpreting literary texts by relating them to "extrinsic" issues, such as the historical circumstances and politics of the era in which the work was written, its philosophical or theological milieu, or the experiences and frame of mind of its author.
		But Russian formalism was the first major formalist movement; after the Stalinist regime suppressed it in the early 1930s, the Prague Linguistic Circle adopted its analytical methods.
	bcs.bedfordstmartins.com /virtualit/poetry/critical_define/crit_form.html (412 words)

	Russian literature at AllExperts
		Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia or its Ã©migrÃ©s, and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Russia or the Soviet Union.
		Old Russian literature consists of several sparse masterpieces written in the Old Russian language (not to be confused with the contemporaneous Church Slavonic).
		Traditional Russian prose remains popular, and distinctive work has come out of the Russian provinces: for example Nina Gorlanova from Perm has written stories about the everyday problems and joys of the provincial intelligentsia.
	en.allexperts.com /e/r/ru/russian_literature.htm (1147 words)

	Formalism Summary
		Formalism is the mathematical school of thought which holds that mathematics consists of symbols, rules for combining those symbols, some minimal number of assumptions or axioms, and certain agreed upon rules of inference.
		Formalism is school of thought in law and jurisprudence which emphasises the fairness of process over substantive outcomes.
		Russian formalism was a twentieth century school, based in Eastern Europe, with roots in linguistic studies and also theorising on fairy tales, in which content is taken as secondary since the tale 'is' the form, the princess 'is' the fairy-tale princess.
	www.bookrags.com /Formalism (1344 words)

	NYU \| Russian \| Graduate \| Courses
		Survey of Russian drama from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century.
		The key methodological concepts and critical achievements of the Russian Formalists and their reflection in the work of the Prague Linguistic Circle and of the contemporary "Moscow-Tartu" semiotic school.
		Historical survey of Russian phonology and morphology, with an examination of the main currents that shaped the development of Russian as a literary language.
	www.nyu.edu /fas/dept/russian/graduate/courses.html (985 words)

	Bakhtin Circle [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Formal experimentation and an inadequately tendentious narrative position was branded as reactionary, while Bakhtin's work defended the presentation of a plurality of perspectives free from 'monologic' closure.
		The formal characteristics of a work were themselves of ideological significance, but the reactionary tendency was in the imposition of a unitary perspective on a varied community of opinion.
		Modernist formal experimentation and the dominance of parody in modernist literature Lukács found to be a reflection of 'bourgeois decay', while Bakhtin strove to reveal its popular-democratic roots.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/b/bakhtin.htm (8222 words)

	BioMX and Formalism
		Russian Formalism reacts against the deeply-rooted notion that content is superior to form which is merely seen as a recipient.
		In the first phase of Russian Formalism form is synonymous to literariness and thus is granted an essential status in the definition of literature: actually it is what made literature literature.
		Formalism was born after the Einstein's revolution in physics: form and meaning are not separate.
	filmplus.org /biomx/formalism.html (3473 words)

	Overview: Varieties of Formalism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Formalism is a broad term referring to critics and theorists who believe that literary meaning should be found in the text and the text alone.
		Russian Formalism, as applied to literature, works with a variety of genres; its early impetus was to find a way of describing the 'literariness' of (to them) contemporary, innovative texts (such as Futurist poetry).
		Like the Russian Formalists, Richards abandoned positivistic scholarship (historical, biographical, etc.) for a criticism dealing directly with the distinctive properties of literature, although he did see poetry as a rather 'transparent' medium conveying authorial intent/emotive content to the reader.
	social.chass.ncsu.edu /wyrick/DEBCLASS/ovform.htm (1220 words)

	Major Course Selection
		In addition Russian majors must take 18 credits of work in courses chosen from one of the two academic disciplines that comprise the field, Slavic linguistics or Russian literature.
		Linguistics: Russian 401 and/or Russian 402 History of the Russian Language; Russian 403 and/or 404 Structure of the Russian Language.
		Russian literature: Russian 332 Russian Drama and Theatre; Russian 350 Education and Philosophy; Russian 366 the Russian Novel; Russian 368 Soviet Literature; Russian 369 Dostoevsky; Russian 373 Chekhov; Russian 379 The Russian Connection; Russian 384 Dialogue in Texts; Russian 385 Nabokov; Russian 389 Eastern European Literature; Russian 404 Nationality; Russian 427 Russian Formalism.
	www.arts.cornell.edu /russian/MajorCourseSelection.htm (790 words)

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		The Russian Federation (Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija), or Russia (Russian: Росси́я, transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija), is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia.
		Repeated devastating defeats of the Russian army in World War I led to widespread rioting in the major cities of the Russian Empire and to the overthrow in 1917 of the 300-year old Romanov Dynasty.
		The Russian language is the only official state language, but the individual republics have often made their native language co-official next to Russian.
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	Formalist Theory
		The term formalism also is often used in contemporary theoretical parlance to denote the Russian Formalists, especially Vladimir Propp, and Roman Jakobson, whose work became important to later movements like the Czech Prague Circle, French structuralism, and semiotics.
		RUSSIAN FORMALISM: a school of literary theory and analysis that emerged in Russia around 1915, devoting itself to the study of literariness, i.e.
		With the consolidation of Stalin’s dictatorship around 1929, Formalism was silenced as a heresy in the Soviet Union, and its center of research migrated to Prague in the 1930’s.
	www.calvertonschool.org /waldspurger/pages/formalis.htm (594 words)

	Russian Formalism
		Background: "Russian Formalism" refers to the collaborated work of two groups of students gathered in Moscow and Petersburg between, roughly, 1910-1930.
		Thus, despite attempts to seal off Russian Formalism, their ideas of literature did manage to seep out of Russia, and to spread westward as far as the United States.
		As ambiguous as this definition of literature is, the different literary analysis' of the Russian Formalist are quite consistent in their method of procedure.
	www.geocities.com /shaichazan/Lit/rformalism.htm (960 words)

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