The resurrection of poetics from the spirit of rhetoric: the practices of formalism
This article focuses on the influence of rhetorical tradition on the development of categorical framework of Russian Formalism. The author proves that formalism borrows the idea of the poetical from the “deviation” from rhetorical theories.
1. Аверинцев С. С. Античная риторика и судьбы античного рационализма ...
On the methodological meaning of notion of isomorphic enclosure of formalisms
This article suggests that, in many interesting cases when considering the given reference domain, one has to deal with a system of formalisms rather than a single formalism. It is argued that these systems are integrated through isomorphic embeddings of their elements into each other. The article considers some alternative notions of formalism and the definitions of isomorphic embeddings
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