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Russian Formalism was a movement in literary criticism and theory between 1910-1930s in Russia. It emphasized analyzing the form and structure of texts over their content. The movement included theorists like Viktor Shklovsky, Boris Tomashevsky, and Boris Eichenbaum. They developed concepts like defamiliarization to understand how literary devices produce aesthetic effects and aimed to establish literature as an autonomous subject of scientific study. Major contributions included distinguishing between the
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- Sania Mustafa
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