Russian formalism

Russian Formalism
Russian Formalism is a movement of literary criticism and interpretation that emerged in Russia during the second decade of the twentieth century and remained active until about 1930. It concentrated on analyzing the internal structure of literary texts and involved detailed inquiry into plot structure, narrative perspective, symbolic imagery, and other literary techniques. In other words, it stressed the importance of form and technique over content.
This movement began in 1915-1916 with the founding of the Moscow Linguistic Circle and the Petersburg Society for the Stud…