Victor Erlich 
Russian Formalism [PDF ebook] 
History – Doctrine

i-vi — FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION — PREFACE — FOREWORD — CONTENTS — PART I: HISTORY — I. THE FORERUNNERS — II. APPROACHES TO FORMALISM. From the ‘Forest of Symbols’ to the ‘Self-Valuable Word’ — III. THE EMERGENCE OF THE FORMALIST SCHOOL — IV. ‘THE YEARS OF STRUGGLE AND POLEMICS’ (1916–1920) — V. TURBULENT GROWTH (1921–1926) — VI. MARXISM VERSUS FORMALISM — VII. CRISIS AND ROUT (1926–1930) — VIII. REPERCUSSIONS — IX. FORMALISM REDEFINED — PART II: DOCTRINE — X. BASIC CONCEPTS — XI. LITERATURE AND ‘LIFE’–FORMALIST AND STRUCTURALIST VIEW — XII. VERSE STRUCTURE: SOUND AND MEANING — XIII. STYLE AND COMPOSITION — XIV. LITERARY DYNAMICS — XV. STOCK-TAKING — BIBLIOGRAPHY — INDEX