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Academic Year 2001/2002
Russian Formalism
RUSS 256 SP
This course examines the Russian Formalists as theoreticians, critics, and creative writers. Topics to be considered include symbiosis between theories of poetic language advanced by Formalist critics and the poetic
practice of the Futurists Khlebnikov
and Mayakovsky; Viktor Shklovsky, theory of prose, and its relation to his novel, Zoo; or, Letters Not About Love; Formalist experiments in biography; theories of literary evolution; and the legacy of Formalism for
structuralism and semiotics.
MAJOR READINGS
Roman Jakobson, "Modern Russian Poetry (Xlebinkov)" Osip Brik, "Contributions to the Study of Verse Language" Viktor Shklovsky, "Art as Technique"; THEORY OF PROSE (selections); ZOO: OR, LETTERS NOT ABOUT LOVE
Boris Eichenbaum, "How Gogol's
Overcoat is Made": YOUNG TOLSTOY; "The Theory of the Formal Method" Boris Tomashevsky, "Literature and Biography" Jurij Tynjanov, "On Literary Evolution"; "Dostoevsky and Gogol"; selected fiction Roman Jakobson and
Jurij Tynjanov, "Problems in the Stu
dy of Literature and Language" Victor Erlich, RUSSIAN FORMALISM: HISTORY--DOCTRINE
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Midterm paper (3-5 pp.); final paper (10-15 pp.); occasional short oral reports.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Additional Requirements and/or Comments not known
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA RUSS
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
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