OPOJAZ (ОПОЯЗ) (russian: Общество изучения Поэтического Языка, ''Obščestvo izučenija POètičeskogo JAZyka'', "Society for the Study of Poetic Language") was a prominent group of linguists and literary critics in
St. Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
founded in 1916 and dissolved by the early 1930s. The group included
Viktor Shklovsky
Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky ( rus, Ви́ктор Бори́сович Шкло́вский, p=ˈʂklofskʲɪj; – 6 December 1984) was a Russian and Soviet literary theorist, critic, writer, and pamphleteer. He is one of the major figures ass ...
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Boris Eikhenbaum
Boris Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum ( rus, Борис Михайлович Эйхенбаум, p=ɨjxʲɪnˈbaʊm; 16 October 1886 – 2 November 1959) was a Russian Empire and Soviet literary scholar and historian of Russian literature. He is a repre ...
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Osip Brik
Osip Maksimovich Brik (russian: link=no, Óсип Макси́мович Брик) (16 January 1888 – 22 February 1945), was a Russian avant garde writer and literary critic, who was one of the most important members of the Russian formali ...
Moscow linguistic circle
The Moscow linguistic circle was a group of social scientists in semiotics, literary theory, and linguistics active in Moscow from 1915 to ca. 1924. Its members included Filipp Fortunatov (its founder),Russian formalism and
literary semiotics
Semiotic literary criticism, also called literary semiotics, is the approach to literary criticism informed by the theory of signs or semiotics. Semiotics, tied closely to the structuralism pioneered by Ferdinand de Saussure, was extremely influent ...
. It was dissolved under political pressure as "formalism" came to be a political term of opprobrium in the Soviet state.
Bibliography
* В. Б. Шкловский (Viktor Shklovsky): Искусство как прием ' (in russian: Russian) 1917
* Б. М. Эйхенбаум (Boris Eikhenbaum): ' (in russian: Russian), 1919
* Б. М. Эйхенбаум (Boris Eikhenbaum): ' (in russian: Russian), 1925
* О. Вальцель (Oscar Valzel): ' (in russian: Russian)
* Л. Д. Троцкий (
Leon Trotsky
Lev Davidovich Bronstein. ( – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky; uk, link= no, Лев Давидович Троцький; also transliterated ''Lyev'', ''Trotski'', ''Trotskij'', ''Trockij'' and ''Trotzky''. (), was a Russian ...