Le Formalisme Russe
Russian Formalism was an influential school of literary criticism in Russia from the 1910s to the 1930s, emphasizing the structural and technical aspects of literature rather than biographical or historical contexts. Key concepts include defamiliarization (Ostranenie), which highlights how art makes the familiar strange, forcing readers to reconsider the ordinary, and a focus on the 'literariness' of a text, examining how linguistic and formal devices create artistic effect.