Explore: Formalism (literary Analysis)

Formalism is a school of literary criticism and literary theory having mainly to do with structural purposes of a particular text. It is the study of a

Russian formalism was a school of literary theory in Russia from the 1910s to the 1930s. It includes the work of a number of highly influential Russian

by literary theory, which is the philosophical analysis of literature's goals and methods. Although the two activities are closely related, literary critics

were concerned with a formal analysis of narrative forms which would resemble a literary mathematics, or at least a literary syntax, as far as possible

Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis. Since the 19th century, literary scholarship

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object of literary science is not literature but literariness, i.e. what makes a given work a literary work’ (Das 2005, p. 78). Russian formalism preceded

use. The analysis of literary style goes back to the study of classical rhetoric, though modern stylistics has its roots in Russian Formalism and the related

formation. Todorov’s conception of narrative references Russian formalism. This mode of literary criticism construes narrative as a series of events, which

English-language literary figure of his age, illustrates, in his use of back-translation, translators' influence on the evolution of languages and literary styles