OPOJAZ
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OPOJAZ was a pioneering Russian Formalist literary group in early 20th-century Petrograd that developed influential theories of literary form and technique.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| OPOJAZ canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Russian Formalist group
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literary group ⓘ |
| abbreviation | OPOJAZ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| contemporaryWith | Moscow Linguistic Circle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Russia ⓘ |
| dissolvedInPeriod | late 1920s ⓘ |
| emphasis |
analysis of literary devices
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scientific study of literature ⓘ separation of form from content ⓘ |
| field |
Russian Formalism
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literary theory ⓘ poetics ⓘ |
| focus |
literary form
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literary technique ⓘ study of poetic language ⓘ |
| fullName | Obshchestvo izucheniya poeticheskogo yazyka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullNameInRussian | Общество изучения поэтического языка NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalContext | post-Revolutionary Russia ⓘ |
| inception | 1910s ⓘ |
| influenced |
20th-century literary criticism
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Prague Linguistic Circle NERFINISHED ⓘ narratology ⓘ structuralist literary theory ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Russian ⓘ |
| legacy |
foundation of modern poetics
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key source for later formalist and structuralist theories ⓘ |
| location |
Petrograd
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Saint Petersburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| member |
Boris Eikhenbaum
NERFINISHED
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Boris Tomashevsky NERFINISHED ⓘ Lev Yakubinsky NERFINISHED ⓘ Osip Brik NERFINISHED ⓘ Viktor Shklovsky NERFINISHED ⓘ Yury Tynyanov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Russian Formalism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableConcept |
autonomy of literary language
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defamiliarization ⓘ foregrounding of form ⓘ literariness ⓘ |
| notableWorkArea |
theory of poetry
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theory of prose ⓘ |
| opposedView |
biographical criticism
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psychological criticism ⓘ sociological reduction of literature ⓘ |
| reasonForDecline | political pressure in Soviet Union ⓘ |
| translatedName | Society for the Study of Poetic Language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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