ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984) was a Russian literary theorist. He belonged to the class of Russian Formalism . He was also associated with the Russian army during the 1st world war. He founded OPOYAZ (Society for the study of poetic language) in the year 1916 which planted the seeds of Russian Formalism.

Detailed explanation-2: -Formalism was the dominant mode of academic literary study in the US at least from the end of the Second World War through the 1970s, especially as embodied in René Wellek and Austin Warren’s Theory of Literature (1948, 1955, 1962).

Detailed explanation-3: -The Russian Formalists’ concept of “Defamiliarization”, proposed by Viktor Shklovsky in his Art as Technique, refers to the literary device whereby language is used in such a way that ordinary and familiar objects are made to look different.

Detailed explanation-4: -The term formalism also is often used in contemporary theoretical parlance to denote the Russian Formalists, especially Victor Shklovsky, Vladimir Propp, and Roman Jakobson, whose work became important to later movements like the Czech Prague Circle, French structuralism, and semiotics.

Detailed explanation-5: -Viktor Shklovsky, in full Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky, (born January 24 [January 12, Old Style], 1893, St. Petersburg, Russia-died December 8, 1984, Moscow), Russian literary critic and novelist. He was a major voice of Formalism, a critical school that had great influence in Russian literature in the 1920s.