birth of Russian Formalism
Formalism emerged from the discussions between two small groups of students, the OPOJAZ group in St-Petersburg and the Moscow Linguistic Circle (gravitating around Roman Jakobson. ... Russian Formalism later became very close to Futurism, sharing the same interest for the phonic structure of the verse and the same opposition to Symbolism and Realism.Russian Formalists considered literature to be a special use of language.