RUSSIAN FORMALISM

Key notions

 Poetics
 Literariness
 Defamiliarisation/estrangement
 Fabula vs. suzjet
 Baring the device

Reading test questions

 1.What is the context of emergence of the Formalist School? 2.What are its main
representatives?
 2. What does Formalism have in common with the New and Practical Criticism
and what distinguishes them?
 3. What is the object of literary study, according to the Formalist critics? And.What
should be the critic’s main concern?
 4. What does the concept of defamiliarisation refer to? 7.How does it apply to the
narrative category of plot?