Formalism and Early Structuralism, 1914–1960

Literary Theory Formalism and Early Structuralism, 1914–1960 Arranged by : Fitria (1500026011) Fani Alfionita Sari (1500026018) Fatma Fadhilah (1500026037) Mutiara Pratama Putri (1500026038) Shella Antoro Putri (1500026040) Ani Masruroh (1500026044) Sonya Audia ( 1500026050) English Literature Department Faculty of Literature, Culture, and Communication Ahmad Dahlan University 2016 Preface In spite of the enormous influence of Eliot, Leavis, and the New Critics, our current perspectives on the study of literature perhaps more to continental Europe than to England and the United States. The continental European tradition of literary studies that is responsible for this begins in Russia, in the second decade of the twentieth century, in Moscow and St Petersburg. It finds a new home in Prague in the late 1920s, when the political climate in the Soviet Union has become too repressive, and travels to France (by way of New York City) after the Sec...