RUSSIAN FORMALISM
(MOSCOW LINGUISTIC CIRCLE / ST. PETERSBURG OPOIaZ [SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF POETIC LANGUAGE])

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Philosophers / Theorists:

• Boris Eichenbaum (1886 - 1959)
• Boris Tomashevsky (1890 - 1957)
• Victor Shklovsky (1893 - 1984)
• Iurii Tynianov (1894 - 1943)
• Vladimir Propp (1895 - 1970)
• Roman Jakobson (1896 - 1982)
• Sergei Eisenstein (1898 - 1948)

ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

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COURSES

• Harvard University: Russian Formalism (Weir)
• University of Texas, Austin: Russian Formalism (Manouelian)
• West Virginia University: The Formalist Tradition Revisited (McHale)

JOURNALS

• Russian Poetics in Translation

SOURCES: PRIMARY

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• Anthologies:

  • Bann, Stephen, and John E. Bowlt, eds.  Russian Formalism: a Collection of Articles and Texts in Translation.  Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1973.

  • Lemon, Lee T., and Marion J. Reiss, eds. Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays.  Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1965.

  • Matejka, Ladislav, and Krystyna Pomorska, eds.  Readings in Russian Poetics: Formalist and Structuralist Views.  Intro. by Gerald L. Bruns.  Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1971.  Rpt. Dalkey Archive Press, 2002.

  • O'Toole, L. M., and Anne Shukman, eds.   Formalist Theory.  Oxford: Holdan, 1977.

  • O'Toole, L. M., and Anne Shukman, eds.   Formalism: History, Comparison, Genre.  Oxford: Holdan, 1978.

  • Stempel, W-D., ed.  Texte zur theorie der verses und der poetischen sprache.  Vol. 2. of Texte der russischen formalisten.  Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1972.

  • Striedter, Jurij, ed.  Texte zur allgemeinen literaturtheorie und zur theorie der prosa.  Vol. 1 of Texte der russischen formalisten.  Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1969.

  • Todorov, Tzvetan, ed.  Théorie de la litttérature: Textes des Formalistes Russes.  Paris: Seuil, 1965.

• Selected Individual Works:

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

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• Anthologies:

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• Selected Individual Works:

  • Bennett, Tony.  Formalism and Marxism.  London: Routledge, 1989.

  • Erlich, Victor.  Russian Formalism: History--Doctrine.  The Hague: Mouton, 1955.

  • Hansen-Love, Aage A.  Der russiche formalismus.  Vienna: Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenchaften, 1978.  

  • Hawkes, Terence.  "Russian Formalism: the Knight's Move."  Structuralism and Semiotics.  London: Methuen, 1977.
   59-72.

  • Jackson, Robert Louis, and Stephen Rudy, eds.  Russian Formalism: a Retrospective Glance.  Columbus, OH: Slavica, 1985.

  • Jameson, Frederic.  "The Formalist Projection."  The Prison-House of Language: a Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1972.  43-98.

  • Jefferson, Ann.  "Russian Formalism."  Modern Literary Theory: a Comparative Introduction.  Ed. Ann Jefferson and David Robey.  London: Batsford, 1982.  16-37.

  • Medvedev, P. N.  1928.

    • The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship: a Critical Introduction to Sociological Poetics.  Trans. A. J. Wehrle.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1978.

  • Pomorska, Krystyna.  

    • "Russian Formalism in Retrospect."  Readings in Russian Poetics: Formalist and Structuralist Views.  Ed. Ladislav Matejka and Krystyna Pomorska.  Intro. by Gerald L. Bruns.  Cambridge, Mass.: MIT P, 1971.  273-280.

    • Russian Formalist Theory and its Poetic Ambience.  The Hague: Mouton, 1968.

  • Selden, Raman.  "Russian Formalism."  A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory.  Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1989.  7-23.

  • Selden, Raman.  "Russian Formalism and Marxism: an Unconcluded Dialogue."  Literature, Society and the Sociology of Literature.  Ed. Francis barker, et al.  Colchester: University of Essex, 1977.  93-104.

  • Steiner, Peter.  Russian Formalism: a Metapoetics.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1984.

  • Striedter, Jurij.  Literary Structure, Evolution and Value: Russian Formalism and Czech Structuralism Reconsidered.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1989.

  • Striedter, Jurij.  "The Russian Formalist Theory of Literary Evolution."  PTL 3.1 (1978): 1-24.

  • Striedter, Jurij.  "The Russian Formalist Theory of Prose." PTL 2.3 (1977): 429-70.

  • Thompson, Ewa M.  Russian Formalism and Anglo-American New Criticism.  The Hague: Mouton, 1971.

  • Trotsky, Leon.  "The Formalist School of Poetry and Marxism."  Literature and Revolution.  London: Redwords, 1971. 

  • Wellek, René.  "Russian Formalism."  Arcadia 6 (1971): 175-186. 
    • The Attack on Literature and Other Essays.  Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1982.  119-134.

On-Line:

• University of Essex: Russian Formalism

• Everard, Jerry: Introduction to Russian Formalism

• Holcombe, C. John: Formalism: Russian and Prague Schools

• McCauley, Karen A.: Russian Formalism (Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism)

• Trotsky, Leon: Literature and Revolution: The Formalist School Of Poetry And Marxism

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Russian Formalism

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