Russian Formalist
C24761
concept
A Russian Formalist is a literary theorist associated with the early 20th-century Russian movement that focused on the formal structures, devices, and functions of literary texts rather than their historical, biographical, or ideological contexts.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Russian Formalist canonical | 1 |
| Russian literary theorist | 1 |
| structuralist critic | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
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Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: Russian Formalist
Generated description
A Russian Formalist is a literary theorist associated with the early 20th-century Russian movement that focused on the formal structures, devices, and functions of literary texts rather than their historical, biographical, or ideological contexts.
Instances (3)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Viktor Shklovsky | — |
| Tzvetan Todorov | structuralist critic |
| Mikhail Bakhtin | Russian literary theorist |