“A crítica se surpreende, a ciência compreende”: os impasses da crítica literária no formalismo russo

The present paper aims at discussing the birth of modern literary theory, taking the Formal School as the starting point of the constitution of literary studies as an autonomous discipline. Russian formalists sought early on to elaborate an original conceptual body to understand the literary phenome...

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Autores: Marques, Priscila Nascimento; Nascimento, Rodrigo Alves Do [UNESP]
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Estado:Published version
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Brasil
Institución:UNESP
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UNESP
Lenguaje:Portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unesp.br:11449/212268
Acceso en línea:http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2596-304x20212342pmrn
http://hdl.handle.net/11449/212268
Nivel de acceso:Acceso abierto
Palabra clave:literary criticism
literary theory
Russian formalism
post-theory
crítica literária
teoria literária
formalismo russo
pós-teoria
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Sumario:The present paper aims at discussing the birth of modern literary theory, taking the Formal School as the starting point of the constitution of literary studies as an autonomous discipline. Russian formalists sought early on to elaborate an original conceptual body to understand the literary phenomena as emancipated from categories borrowed from sociology, philosophy or psychology. Such effort produced ground-breaking results, but also gave rise to deadlocks that are on the base of the crisis in literary theory in the 1970s and 1980s, when post-theories emerged bringing extra-literary elements (such as gender, politics, decolonial perspective) back to the spotlight. This paper argues these deadlocks have become evident in the early stages of the Formal School, when its theoretical construction was confronted with the practice of literary criticism. While theory and criticism fed each other back, the interrelations between them made their own shortcomings and limits explicit.