Description
Book SynopsisYuri Tynianov was a key figure of Russian Formalism, an intellectual movement in early 20th century Russia that also included Viktor Shklovsky and Roman Jakobson. Tynianov developed a groundbreaking conceptualization of literature as a system within—and in constant interaction with—other cultural and social systems. His essays on Russian literary classics, like Pushkin's
Eugene Onegin and works by Dostoevsky and Gogol, as well as on the emerging art form of filmmaking, provide insight into the ways art and literature evolve and adapt new forms of expression. Although Tynianov was first a scholar of Russian literature, his ideas transcend the boundaries of any one genre or national tradition.
Permanent Evolution gathers together for the first time Tynianov's seminal articles on literary theory and film, including several articles never before translated into English.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- A NoteFrom the Editors-Translators
- Introduction Daria Khitrova
- Part One: Theory Through History—Then
- Dostoevsky and Gogol (Toward a Theory ofParody)
- Tyutchev and Heine
- The Ode as an OratoricalGenre
- On the Composition of Eugene Onegin
- Part Two: Theory Through History—Now
- Literary Fact
- Interlude
- On Khlebnikov
- Film—Word—Music
- Part Three: Evolutions in Literature and Film
- On the Screenplay
- On Plot and Fabula in Film
- The Foundations of Film
- On Literary Evolution
- Part Four: Epilogue
- Problems of the Study of Literature andLanguage (with Roman Jakobson)
- On FEX
- On Mayakovsky. In Memory of the Poet
- On Parody
- Appendix
- Names and Terms
- Yuri Tynianov: Biographical Note
- Works Cited
