Literary Theory Is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature. ... Russian formalism was an influential school of literary criticism in Russia from 1910 to 1930.Important contributors of this approach was Viklov Shklovsky, Vladimir Propp and roman Jakobson etc. Formalists were primarily oriented towards the form of literature. They deal with the study of literature as literariness. ... What the wanted to know is how literature works, how it achieves its defamiliarization effects. ...

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