lecture 1

Question 1

in the formalist view, literature does not convey any clear or paraphrasable message, rather it communicates what is other wise

Answer 1

ineffable

not fannible

Question 2

The Formalists and the Futuralist were active in the fearce debates of this era concerning art and it’s ….. with ideology

Answer 2

connections

not infections

Question 3

Neocritics were more concerned with the (practice) rather than the (theory) of close reading of individual text

Answer 3

true

Question 4

though Russian formalism as a school was….. with the rise of stalin and the official soviet aesthetic of socialist realism, it’s influence was transmitted through figures such as jacobson and Tzveten Todorov

Answer 4

eclipsed

not elapsed

Question 5

It is art as techniques that Shklovsky introduces one of the central concepts of Russian formalism that of……

Answer 5

defamiliarization

not familiarization

Question 6

Shklovsky qoutes Tolestoy as saying that the whole complex of lives of many people go on

Answer 6

unconsciously

Question 7

It is against this background of ordinary perception in general that art assumes its

Answer 7

significance

Question 8

Art’s purpose is not to make us perceive meaning but to create a specific perception of object

Answer 8

True

Question 9

Sklovsky even says that themeaning of a work of art broadens to the extent that artfulness…….

Answer 9

diminishes

not admonishes

Question 10

Shklovsky’s formalism can possibly accomodate cultural change and the relative status of …… innovation

Answer 10

radical

Question 11

It’s Formalism’s insistence on…… innovation “which compressed its most significant (quarrel with the old tradition”

Answer 11

empirical