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OPOJAZ

OPOJAZ is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand OPOJAZ rather than just read about it. In short: OPOJAZ (ОПОЯЗ) (Russian: Общество изучения Поэтического Языка, Obščestvo izučenija POètičeskogo JAZyka, "Society for the Study of Poetic Language") was a prominent group of linguists and literary critics in St. Petersburg founded in 1916 and dissolved by the early 1930s.

Key takeaways

OPOJAZ belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect OPOJAZ to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of OPOJAZ from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

OPOJAZ (ОПОЯЗ) (Russian: Общество изучения Поэтического Языка, Obščestvo izučenija POètičeskogo JAZyka, "Society for the Study of Poetic Language") was a prominent group of linguists and literary critics in St. Petersburg founded in 1916 and dissolved by the early 1930s. The group included Viktor Shklovsky, Boris Eikhenbaum, Osip Brik, Boris Kušner and Yury Tynianov. Along with the Moscow linguistic circle it was responsible for the development of Russian formalism and literary semiotics. It was dissolved under political pressure as "formalism" came to be a political term of opprobrium in the Soviet state.

Bibliography В. Б. Шкловский (Viktor Shklovsky): Искусство как прием (in Russian: Russian) 1917 Б. М. Эйхенбаум (Boris Eikhenbaum): Как сделана «Шинель» Гоголя (in Russian: Russian), 1919 Б. М. Эйхенбаум (Boris Eikhenbaum): Теория «формального метода» (in Russian: Russian), 1925 О. Вальцель (Oscar Valzel): Проблема формы в поэзии (in Russian: Russian) Л. Д. Троцкий (Leon Trotsky): Формальная школа поэзии и марксизм (глава из книги «Литература и революция», 1923) (in Russian: Russian)

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with OPOJAZ

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what OPOJAZ claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to OPOJAZ before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about OPOJAZ ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of OPOJAZ

In research: OPOJAZ appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses OPOJAZ in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: OPOJAZ is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Defunct literary societies, Linguistics organization stubs, Literary society stubs, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for OPOJAZ outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study OPOJAZ in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what OPOJAZ means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain OPOJAZ out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is OPOJAZ in simple terms?

Why does OPOJAZ matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study OPOJAZ?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on OPOJAZ.