Abstract
Russian Formalism has two key features of defamiliarization and scientification, and with these features, Russian Formalism is certain to oppose the classical principles of genre classification. Through the mediation of historic procedural poetics, Russian Formalism is linked with literary genre. Genre can be understood as an aggregated system of characteristic procedure, and the nature of its development can be seen in procedure renovation, the replacement of elegant genre with vulgar ones, and genre subversion. The relationships of different schools of normative poetics are not opposite to each other but continual and successive. Historic procedural poetics enables Russian Formalism to play an important role at the onset of modern genre theory, and Russian Formalism stops the nihilistic phase and starts the constructive phrase in the development of modern genre theory.
First Page
139
Last Page
145
Recommended Citation
Chen, Jun. 2015. "New Changes and Redemption: On the Russian Formalism's Genre Theory." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 35, (3): pp.139-145. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol35/iss3/8
