Russian formalism
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Russian formalism was an early 20th-century literary theory movement that focused on the formal structures and devices of texts rather than their content or historical context.
All labels observed (10)
How this entity was disambiguated
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NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Russian formalism Context triple: [Roman Jakobson, movement, Russian formalism]
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A.
New Formalism
New Formalism is a mid-20th-century architectural style that revived classical principles of symmetry, monumentality, and formal composition within modernist design.
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Bloomfieldian structuralism
Bloomfieldian structuralism is a behaviorist, empiricist approach to linguistics that analyzes language through distributional patterns of observable forms, emphasizing description over innate mental structures.
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structuralism
Structuralism is an early school of psychology that sought to analyze the mind by breaking conscious experience down into its basic elements through systematic introspection.
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Methods in Structural Linguistics
Methods in Structural Linguistics is a foundational 1951 work in linguistics that systematically develops the principles and procedures of structural (distributional) analysis of language.
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Boasian linguistics
Boasian linguistics is a tradition in linguistic anthropology, founded by Franz Boas, that emphasizes detailed descriptive fieldwork, the study of indigenous languages in their cultural context, and the rejection of hierarchical or evolutionary rankings of languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Russian formalism Target entity description: Russian formalism was an early 20th-century literary theory movement that focused on the formal structures and devices of texts rather than their content or historical context.
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A.
New Formalism
New Formalism is a mid-20th-century architectural style that revived classical principles of symmetry, monumentality, and formal composition within modernist design.
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B.
Bloomfieldian structuralism
Bloomfieldian structuralism is a behaviorist, empiricist approach to linguistics that analyzes language through distributional patterns of observable forms, emphasizing description over innate mental structures.
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C.
structuralism
Structuralism is an early school of psychology that sought to analyze the mind by breaking conscious experience down into its basic elements through systematic introspection.
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D.
Methods in Structural Linguistics
Methods in Structural Linguistics is a foundational 1951 work in linguistics that systematically develops the principles and procedures of structural (distributional) analysis of language.
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E.
Boasian linguistics
Boasian linguistics is a tradition in linguistic anthropology, founded by Franz Boas, that emphasizes detailed descriptive fieldwork, the study of indigenous languages in their cultural context, and the rejection of hierarchical or evolutionary rankings of languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
20th-century literary theory
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formalism ⓘ literary theory movement ⓘ |
| associatedWithOrganization |
Moscow Linguistic Circle
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OPOJAZ ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Russia ⓘ |
| developedInPeriod |
1910s
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1920s ⓘ early 20th century ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
form over content
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literariness ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
formal structures of literary texts
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literary devices ⓘ poetic language ⓘ |
| hasKeyConcept |
defamiliarization
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fabula and sjuzhet distinction ⓘ foregrounding ⓘ literariness (literaturnost) ⓘ motivation of device ⓘ poetic function of language ⓘ |
| hasKeyWork |
Art as Device
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Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics (early formalist phase) ⓘ Theory of Prose ⓘ |
| hasNotableTheorist |
Boris Eikhenbaum
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Boris Tomashevsky ⓘ Osip Brik ⓘ Roman Jakobson ⓘ Viktor Shklovsky ⓘ Yury Tynyanov ⓘ |
| influenced |
20th-century literary theory
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Czech structuralism ⓘ
linked to:
Prague Linguistic Circle
Prague Linguistic Circle ⓘ narratology ⓘ structuralism ⓘ |
| language | Russian ⓘ |
| methodologicalApproach |
scientific study of literature
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text-centered analysis ⓘ |
| opposes |
biographical criticism
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historical-biographical method ⓘ symbolist criticism ⓘ |
| originatedInCity |
Moscow
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Saint Petersburg ⓘ
linked to:
St. Petersburg
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| rejects |
psychological interpretation as primary method
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reduction of literature to ideology ⓘ |
| studies |
functions of literary devices
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narrative structure ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Russian Empire
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early Soviet Union ⓘ |
| wasCriticizedBy | Soviet Marxist critics ⓘ |
| wasSuppressedIn | late 1920s ⓘ |
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Subject: Russian formalism Description of subject: Russian formalism was an early 20th-century literary theory movement that focused on the formal structures and devices of texts rather than their content or historical context.
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