Russian Formalist Poetics ("cross-cultural" Research Series)
by Zhang Bing
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This book mainly studies the Russian formalist poetics which has global influence. Russian formalism is considered by Western literary theory to be the beginning of literary theory in the 20th century. This book includes the aesthetic origins of formalist poetics; special studies on the main representatives such as Shklovsky, Eichenbaum, Dignanov and Yakobson; the interpretation of the core concepts of formalism such as "literariness" and "defamiliarization"; the relationship between formalist poetics and other poetics, and its impact on the development of Russian poetics in the 20th century. The author not only affirms the importance of formalist poetics attaching importance to literary characteristics, but also points out its shortcomings of ignoring social, historical and cultural context.
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