Russian formalism

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Publications

Readers and anthologies on literature

• Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays, eds., trans. & intro. Lee T. Lemon and Marion J. Reis, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1965, xvii+143 pp; 2nd ed., intro. Gary Saul Morson, U Nebraska Press, 2012, 162 pp. 4 texts. [1]. Review: Hughes (SEEJ 1968). (English)
• Théorie de la littérature: textes des formalistes russes, ed. Tzvetan Todorov, Paris: Seuil, 1965; 2001, 336 pp. (French)
• Texte der russischen Formalisten, 2 vols., ed. Jurij Striedter (I) and Wolf-Dieter Stempel (II), Munich: Fink, 1969 & 1972, 500 & 502 pp, BSB/2. (Russian)/(German)
• Formalismo y vanguardia, trans. Agustín García Tirado and Juan Antonio Méndez, Madrid: A. Corazón, 1970, 160 pp; 2nd ed. as Formalismo y vanguardia: textos de los formalistas rusos, 1973, 171 pp. (Spanish)
• Readings in Russian Poetics: Formalist and Structuralist Views, eds. Ladislav Matejka and Krystyna Pomorska, MIT Press, 1971, x+306 pp; Dalkey Archive Press, 2002. 17 texts. Review: Harkins (SEEJ 1972). (English)
• Russian Formalism: A Collection of Articles and Texts in Translation, eds. Stephen Bann and John E. Bowlt, Edinburgh: Scottish Academy Press, 1973, 178 pp; New York: Barnes and Noble, 1974, 178 pp. 13 texts. Reviews: Shukman (MLR 1974), Wasiolek (CompLit 1975). (English)

Readers and anthologies on cinema

• Futurism / Formalism / FEKS: Eccentrism and Soviet Cinema, 1918-36, eds. Ian Christie and John Gillett, London: British Film Institute, 1978, 74 pp. Published to accompany a 1978 season at the National Film Theatre, London, Russian Eccentrics. (English)
• Les Formalistes rusees et le cinéma: poétique du film, ed. François Albera, Paris: Nathan, 1996. (French)
• Poetika Kino: Theorie und Praxis des Films im russischen Formalismus, ed. Wolfgang Beilenhof, Frankfurt am Main: Surkamp, 2005. (German)

Literature

On literature

• Victor Erlich, "Russian Formalism--In Perspective", The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 13:2 (Dec 1954), pp 215-225.
• Victor Erlich, Russian Formalism: History-Doctrine, The Hague: Slavistic Printings and Reprintings, 1955, 276 pp; 2nd ed., rev., 1965. Reviews: Malnick (SEER 1955), Brown (ASEER 1956), McLean (CompLit 1957). (English)
  • Russischer Formalismus, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1973; Fischer, 1987. (German)
  • El formalismo ruso: historia-doctrina, Barcelona: Seix Barral, 1974, 450 pp. (Spanish)
• Ignazio Ambrogio, Formalismo e Avanguardia in Russia, Rome: Riuniti, 1968, 263 pp. Review: R.W. (CompLit 1971). (Italian)
• Krystyna Pomorska, Russian Formalism and Its Poetic Ambiance, The Hague: Mouton, 1968, 127 pp. Review: R.W. (CompLit 1971). (English)
• Aage A. Hansen-Löve, Der russische Formalismus. Methodologische Rekonstruktionen seiner Entwicklung aus dem Prinzip der Verfremdung, Vienna: Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1978; 2nd ed., Vienna: VÖAW, 1996, 636 pp. [2] (German)
  • Oge Khanzen-Leve (Оге Ханзен-Лёве), Russkiy formalizm. Metodologicheskaya rekonstruktsiya razvitiya na osnove printsipa ostraneniya [Русский формализм. Методологическая реконструкция развития на основе принципа остранения], trans. S.A. Romashko, Moscow: Yazyki russkoy kultury, 2001, 672 pp. [3] (Russian)
• Peter Steiner, Russian Formalism: A Metapoetics, Cornell University Press, 1984, 276 pp; new ed., Geneva/Lausanne: sdvig press, 2014, 245 pp. Review: Wellek (PT 1986), Ehre (CompLit 1986). (English)
  • El formalismo ruso: una metapoética, trans. Vicente Carmona González, Madrid: Akal, 2001, 245 pp. (Spanish)
  • Ruský formalismus: metapoetika, trans. František A. Podhajský, Brno: Host, 2011, 292 pp. (Czech)
• Robert Louis Jackson, Stephen Rudy (eds.), Russian Formalism: A Retrospective Glance. A Festschrift in Honor of Victor Erlich, New Haven: Yale Center for International and Area Studies, 1985, xiii+304 pp. Review: Shukman (SEER 1987). (English)

On cinema

• J.H. Eagle, Russian Formalist Film Theory, Michigan Slavic Publications, 1981, 174 pp. [4] (English)

Encyclopedic entries

• Peter Grzybek, "Russian Formalism", in Encyclopedia of Semiotics, ed. Paul Bouissac, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp 550-553.
• Devin Fore, "Formalism", in The Encyclopedia of the Novel, ed. Peter Melville Logan, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, pp 315-320.

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_formalism