Shklovsky wrote in 1917 that art makes the stone stony. The claim assumed a baseline, habitual
language against which literature registers as friction. Formalism never measured it. By 1930 the
movement was finished and the term undefined. This book treats that as unfinished business. Emrah
Peksoy argues that the computational analysis of literary corpora with language models supplies what
Formalism lacked. It provides an empirical description of linguistic expectation. Once t ...