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