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Article: Translator's introduction.(Editorial)
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- December 22, 2003
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Boris Tomashevskii (1890-1957) was one of the major figures in the short-lived Russian Formalist movement. As this survey article explains, the Formalist school was indeed a new one at the time he was writing it (1927)--just a little more than a decade old. By the time it was published (1928), the Formalist school or movement was a year or two away from its abrupt, complete termination, decreed by Soviet authorities.
During the period of his involvement with the Formalism period, Tomashevskii published a book on Russian Versification (1923) and a collection of articles On Verse (1929), as well as a study of Pushkin (1925); his most important contribution during ...