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Russian formalist criticism : four essays /
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. Incl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Ruso |
| Publicado: |
Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2012]
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 centerpi. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (109 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780803274518 0803274513 |