Russian formalism

 Russian formalism was interested in structure of a sentence and in a literature. Russian formalism is a school of literary criticism formed in Russia was work on a literary criticism from 1910 to 1930. Some of its concepts are still in use today in literary criticism. They focus in aspects of verbal communication called literariness, it means to create a distant between two points rather than a straight line. The Russian formalists believed that literature, including poetry, should not be interpreted based on ideology, historical interests, or psychological principles. Literary art is the total effect of literary devices and “strategies” the writer uses to achieve her aims.

Scholars point out that Russian formalism is not the precise term for the school of criticism. They are interested in what they are call in structure, in other word, in the way a text is put together.  Many of its early adherents could not agree on what all of its principals and goals should be. They simply considered themselves “formalists.”

Formalists advocated an objective and what they considered a “scientific” method of studying literature and poetic language. Literary scholarship was thought to be a distinct field of study that was separate from the disciplines of psychology and sociology. Only those features that distinguish literature from all other kinds of thought and expression should be the object of critical study.