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What is Videogame Formalism? Exploring the Pillars of Russian Formalism for the Study of Videogames [PDF]

open access: yesGames and Culture, 2022
This article provides a general overview of the theoretical foundations of formalism to assess their usefulness for the study of videogames and thereby establish grounds for a more robust approach.
Jasper Van Vught
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The Fate of Russian Formalism (Russian Formalism as Understood by Foreign Critics)

Soviet Studies in Literature, 1985
The history and theory of Russian Formalism began to attract the attention of Western literary scholars as early as the 1920s. Western journals at that time published descriptive articles by Russian scholars such as Viktor Zhirmunskii, Boris Tomashevskii, A.N. Voznesenskii, and Nina Gourfinkel who were close to the Formalist movement.
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Russian formalism

2019
Abstract This chapter examines the reception of Aristotle’s Poetics by the Russian formalists (with case studies focusing on Shklovsky, Petrovsky, Tomashevsky, and Propp). It demonstrates that these Russian ‘neo-Aristotelians’ adopt and adapt their key narratological priorities and principles from the Poetics, especially their theories ...
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Bergson and Russian Formalism

Comparative Literature, 1976
IN THE PREFACE to his book Through Literature (1924), Boris Eichenbaum says of his articles written in 1916 and 1917 that "Their basic striving is toward an epistemologically based aesthetics."' Although Eichenbaum expresses his interest in such philosophical problems as the nature of space and time more openly than the other formalists he was in fact ...
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Russian literary Formalism

2018
Russian literary Formalism, an active movement in Russian literary criticism from about 1915 to 1929, approached the literary work as a self-referential, formed artefact rather than as an expression of reality or experience outside the work. It asked the question, ‘How is the work made?’ rather than ‘What does the work say?’ Its founding assumption ...
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