Russian Formalist

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concept

A Russian Formalist is a literary theorist associated with the early 20th-century Russian movement that focused on the formal structures, devices, and functions of literary texts rather than their historical, biographical, or ideological contexts.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Russian Formalist canonical 1
Russian literary theorist 1
structuralist critic 1

Instances (3)

Instance Via concept surface
Viktor Shklovsky
Tzvetan Todorov structuralist critic
Mikhail Bakhtin Russian literary theorist