Russian Formalism A Metapoetics / Peter Steiner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steiner, P. (Peter), 1946-

en Book Program, National Endowment for the Humanities Op, Author.

Contributor:

en Book Program, funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Formalism (Literary analysis)--Soviet Union.

Formalism (Literary analysis).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cornell University Press 1984

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1984.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Peter Steiner is Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. Who Is Formalism, What Is She?

2. The Three Metaphors

3. A Synecdoche

4. The Developmental Significance of Russian Formalism

Index

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781501707025

1501707027

OCLC:

647278913