"Some of the most important literary theory of this century."--College English Russian formalists emerged from the Russian Revolution with ideas about the indep

Russian Formalism, one of the twentieth century's most important movements in literary criticism, has received far less attention than most of its rivals. Exami

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This edited volume assembles the work of leading international scholars in a comprehensive history of Russian literary theory and criticism from 1917 to the pos