OPOJAZ

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OPOJAZ was a pioneering Russian Formalist literary group in early 20th-century Petrograd that developed influential theories of literary form and technique.

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OPOJAZ canonical 4
OPOYAZ 4

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instanceOf Russian Formalist group
literary group
abbreviation OPOJAZ
activeInPeriod early 20th century
contemporaryWith Moscow Linguistic Circle
country Russia
dissolvedInPeriod late 1920s
emphasis analysis of literary devices
scientific study of literature
separation of form from content
field Russian Formalism
linked to: Russian formalism

literary theory
poetics
focus literary form
literary technique
study of poetic language
fullName Obshchestvo izucheniya poeticheskogo yazyka
fullNameInRussian Общество изучения поэтического языка
historicalContext post-Revolutionary Russia
inception 1910s
influenced 20th-century literary criticism
Prague Linguistic Circle
narratology
structuralist literary theory
languageOfWork Russian
legacy foundation of modern poetics
key source for later formalist and structuralist theories
location Petrograd
Saint Petersburg
member Boris Eikhenbaum
Boris Tomashevsky
Lev Yakubinsky
Osip Brik
Viktor Shklovsky
Yury Tynyanov
movement Russian Formalism
linked to: Russian formalism
notableConcept autonomy of literary language
defamiliarization
foregrounding of form
literariness
notableWorkArea theory of poetry
theory of prose
opposedView biographical criticism
psychological criticism
sociological reduction of literature
reasonForDecline political pressure in Soviet Union
translatedName Society for the Study of Poetic Language

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Viktor Shklovsky memberOf OPOJAZ
OPOJAZ abbreviation OPOJAZ
Society for the Study of Poetic Language shortName OPOYAZ
linked to: OPOJAZ
Art as Device associatedWith OPOYAZ
linked to: OPOJAZ
Art as Technique associatedWith OPOYAZ
linked to: OPOJAZ
Third Factory associatedWith OPOYAZ
linked to: OPOJAZ