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Boris Tomashevsky, “Thematics,” in Russian Formalist
MOTIF HARRY LEVIN 1968
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Some New Formalist is going to come along and tell you that because it’s easier to get a computer to write like Snyder than to get it to write like Richard Wilbur, that means Richard Wilbur must be better than Snyder.
Poetic Machines 07 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Dinocrates the Formalist was a flashy cove who, in the first instance of starchitect branding, wandered into Alexander the Great's camp dressed as Hercules and flourishing his plans to fashion Mount Athos into a gigantic recumbent sculpture of his would-be patron.
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He soon meets two men called Formalist and [[Hypocrisy]] who have gone around the wall rather than through the gate.
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He soon meets two men called Formalist and [[Hypocrisy]] who have gone around the wall rather than through the gate.
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He soon meets two men called Formalist and [[Hypocrisy]] who have gone around the wall rather than through the gate.
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He soon meets two men called Formalist and [[Hypocrisy]] who have gone around the wall rather than through the gate.
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In the Russian "Formalist" school of criticism, the term was apparently invented to refer to a use of language in narration that had a "storytelling" quality - i.e. a first-person narrator that was telling the story with a distinctive method and voice.
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In the Russian "Formalist" school of criticism, the term was apparently invented to refer to a use of language in narration that had a "storytelling" quality - i.e. a first-person narrator that was telling the story with a distinctive method and voice.
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In the Russian "Formalist" school of criticism, the term was apparently invented to refer to a use of language in narration that had a "storytelling" quality - i.e. a first-person narrator that was telling the story with a distinctive method and voice.
September 2009 2009
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