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Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays, Second Edition
Lee T. Lemon
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Description for Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays, Second Edition
Paperback. Set a course for literary studies that led to Prague structuralism, French semiotics, and postmodern poetics. Editor(s): Lemon, Lee T.; Reis, Marion J. Num Pages: 162 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 11. Weight in Grams: 238.
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. Victor Shklovsky’s pioneering “Art as Technique” (1917) defines the literary as a way to make us see familiar things as if for the first time. His 1921 essay on Tristram Shandy makes that eccentric novel the centerpiece for a theory of ... Read more
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. Victor Shklovsky’s pioneering “Art as Technique” (1917) defines the literary as a way to make us see familiar things as if for the first time. His 1921 essay on Tristram Shandy makes that eccentric novel the centerpiece for a theory of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
238g
Number of Pages
162
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803239982
SKU
V9780803239982
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About Lee T. Lemon
Lee T. Lemon is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the author of several books, including Portraits of the Artist in Contemporary Fiction and Approaches to Literature: A Guide to Thinking and Writing. Marion J. Reis was affiliated with the Oak Park and River Forest High School in Oak Park, Illinois. Gary Saul Morson is ... Read more
Reviews for Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays, Second Edition
“Some of the most important literary theory of this century.”—College English