Russian Formalism: The Theory of Literary Estrangement and the Estrangement of Social Practices

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City

Please join us for a talk with Ilya Kalinin, Associate Professor at Saint Petersburg State University (Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences), and Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. Radical socio-cultural transformation constituted the very material and style, the texture and technique, of Russian Formalism. Estrangement, shift, deformation, struggle between old and new genres, mutual antagonism of…