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)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

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