XI. LITERATURE AND ‘LIFE’–FORMALIST AND STRUCTURALIST VIEW

Chapters in this book

1. i-vi i
2. FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION 7
3. PREFACE 9
4. FOREWORD 11
5. CONTENTS 15
6. PART I: HISTORY
7. I. THE FORERUNNERS 19
8. II. APPROACHES TO FORMALISM. From the ‘Forest of Symbols’ to the ‘Self-Valuable Word’ 33
9. III. THE EMERGENCE OF THE FORMALIST SCHOOL 51
10. IV. ‘THE YEARS OF STRUGGLE AND POLEMICS’ (1916–1920) 70
11. V. TURBULENT GROWTH (1921–1926) 87
12. VI. MARXISM VERSUS FORMALISM 99
13. VII. CRISIS AND ROUT (1926–1930) 118
14. VIII. REPERCUSSIONS 140
15. IX. FORMALISM REDEFINED 154
16. PART II: DOCTRINE
17. X. BASIC CONCEPTS 171
18. XI. LITERATURE AND ‘LIFE’–FORMALIST AND STRUCTURALIST VIEW 192
19. XII. VERSE STRUCTURE: SOUND AND MEANING 212
20. XIII. STYLE AND COMPOSITION 230
21. XIV. LITERARY DYNAMICS 251
22. XV. STOCK-TAKING 272
23. BIBLIOGRAPHY 287
24. INDEX 303