... dialectology, associationist psychology, and avant-garde ideology. This is in contrast to claims that Russian formalism was from the start inspired by Saussurean structuralism. Separating the foundations of modern literary theory from a structuralist paradigm allows us to disassociate the formalists' original...

... wing, especially Roman Jakobson) emerging from the Moscow Linguistic Circle’s interest in and practice of dialectology. This is a long overdue contribution to our knowledge of the prehistory of Russian Formalism. Whether it could also serve as a story of its genesis and whether genesis is what...