OPOYAZ – Society for the Study of Poetic Language

Viktor Shklovsky

OPOYAZ

Founded in 1916

Russian acronym for the Society for the Study ofPoetic Language (Obshchevsto po izucheniyupoeticheskogo yazyka)

Formed at Petrograd (formerly St Petersburg) /Leningrad

Group of literary historians

Major theorists– Boris Eichenbaum– Viktor …