Permanent Evolution: Selected Essays on Literature, Theory and Film

by Yuri Tynianov, Daria Khitrova (Introduction)

Overview

Yuri 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781618118417
Publisher:	Academic Studies Press
Publication date:	09/24/2019
Series:	Cultural Syllabus
Pages:	378
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.78(d)

About the Author

Yuri Tynianov (1894-1943) was a Russian writer and literary theorist, and a central figure among the revolutionary-era scholars who came to be known as the Russian Formalists.

Ainsley Morse is a literary translator and an assistant professor in the Russian Department at Dartmouth College. Her scholarly work is focused on literature of the twentieth century, particularly the Soviet period. She has translated poetry, prose and scholarly works from Russian and the languages of the former Yugoslavia.

Philip Redko is a translator, editor, and teacher. He holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Harvard and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
A Note From the Editors-Translators

Introduction
Daria Khitrova

Part One: Theory Through History—Then
Dostoevsky and Gogol (Toward a Theory of Parody)
Tyutchev and Heine
The Ode as an Oratorical Genre
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 and Language (with Roman Jakobson)
On FEX
On Mayakovsky. In Memory of the Poet
On Parody

Appendix
Names and Terms
Yuri Tynianov: Biographical Note

Works Cited

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Yuri Tynianov was one of the major literary scholars of the twentieth century, yet his work remains almost unknown outside of Russia. The present collection of essays, carefully translated and richly annotated, should rectify this situation. Permanent Evolution gives Anglophone readers the opportunity to acquaint themselves with Tynianov’s distinctive approach to a wide range of subjects, from neoclassicism to Romanticism to the avant-garde, from parody to translation to literary history, from poetry and prose to film. Throughout, meticulous close readings lead to broad theoretical conclusions that remain suggestive, compelling, and applicable almost a century after their composition.” —Michael A. Wachtel, Professor, Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University