Formalism: Quotes Quiz

    Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Formalism? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
    Q. Who said, "If the pattern is formed for the purely practical purpose of communication, then we are dealing with a system of practical language"?


    Jean Toomer
    Lev Jakubinsky
    Boris Eikhenbaum
    Yuri Tynyanov
    Q. Who wrote, "The notion of form here acquires new meaning; it is no longer an envelope, but a complete thing, something concrete, dynamic, self-contained, and without a correlative of any kind"?


    Osip Brik
    Viktor Shklovsky
    Boris Eikhenbaum
    Roman Jakobson
    Q. Who proclaimed, "The object of a science of literature is not literature, but literariness—that is, that which makes a given work a work of literature"?


    Lev Jakubinsky
    Viktor Shklovsky
    Yuri Tynyanov
    Roman Jakobson
    Q. Who declared, "[Art] exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony"?


    Viktor Shklovsky
    Laurence Sterne
    Franz Kafka
    Osip Brik
    Q. Who announced, "The work of art arises from a background of other works and through association with them. The form of a work of art is defined by its relation to other works of art, to forms existing prior to it"?


    Jean Toomer
    Les Murray
    Viktor Shklovsky
    Boris Eikhenbaum