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Russian Formalism
A Metapoetics
Author(s)
Steiner, Peter
Language
EnglishAbstract
Russian Formalism, one of the twentieth century's most important movements in literary criticism, has received far less attention than most of its rivals. Examining Formalism in light of more recent developments in literary theory, Peter Steiner here offers the most comprehensive critique of Formalism to date. Steiner studies the work of the Formalists in terms of the major tropes that characterized their thought. He first considers those theorists who viewed a literary work as a mechanism, an organism, or a system. He then turns to those who sought to reduce literature to its most basic element—language—and who consequently replaced poetics with linguistics. Throughout, Steiner elucidates the basic principles of the Formalists and explores their contributions to the study of poetics, literary history, the theory of literary genre, and prosody. Russian Formalism is an authoritative introduction to the movement that was a major precursor of contemporary critical thought.
Keywords
Literature: history and criticism; Literary theoryDOI
10.7298/8nxa-7h58ISBN
9781501707025, 9780801493669, 9780801417108, 9781501707018, 9781501707025, 9781501707018Publisher
Cornell University PressPublisher website
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/Publication date and place
Ithaca, 2016Imprint
Cornell University PressClassification
Literary theory