Readings in Russian poetics : formalist and structuralist views / edited and prefaced by Ladislav Matejka and Krystyna Pomorska ; introduction by Gerald L. Bruns.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bruns, Gerald L., author of introduction.

Contributor:

Mathews, Harry, 1930-2017, former owner.

Matejka, Ladislav, 1919-2012, editor.

Pomorska, Krystyna, editor.

Dalkey Archive Press, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Formalism (Literary analysis).

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Poetics.

Literature--Theory, etc.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Publishers' advertisements.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 306 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Dalkey Archive edition.

Place of Publication:

Normal, IL : Dalkey Archive Press, 2002.

Summary:

This collection of the definitive essays by and about the Russian Formalists is crucial to understanding the major theoretical movement of the 1920s and 1930s. Investigating the conceptualization of structure and form within literature, the Formalists affected both the creation of art during this period and the development of literary theory as a scientific discipline.

Contents:

Theory of the Formal Method / Boris M. Ejxenbaum

On Realism in Art / Roman Jakobson

Literature and Biography / Boria Tomasevskij

Literary Environment / Boris M. Ejxenbaum

On Literary Evolution / Jurij Tynjanov

Problems in the Study of Literature and Language / Jurij Tynjanov and Roman Jakobson

Dominant / Roman Jakobson

On the Boundary between Studies of Folklore and Literature / Roman Jakobson and Petr Bogatyrev

Fairy Tale Transformations / Vladimir Propp

Contributions to the Study of Verse Language / Osip M. Brik

Rhythm as the Constructive Factor of Verse / Jurij Tynjanov

Meaning of the Word in Verse / Jurij Tynjanov

Reported Speech / V.N. Volosinov

Discourse Typology in Prose / Mixail Baxtin

Afanasij Nikitin's Journey Beyond the Three Seas as a Work of Literature / Nikolaj S. Trubeckoj

Mystery Novel: Dickens's Little Dorrit / Viktor Sklovskij

O. Henry and the Theory of the Short Story / Boris M. Ejxenbaum

Russian Formalism in Retrospect / Krystyna Pomorska

Formal Method and Linguistics / Ladislav Matejka.

Notes:

Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1971. With new introduction.

Publishers advertisements: final unnumbered leaf.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Harry Mathews Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Harry Mathews.

ISBN:

1564783243

9781564783240

OCLC:

48951557