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Galin Tihanov is the George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London.
List of contents
Prologue: What This Book Is and Is Not About
Introduction: The Radical Historicity of Literary Theory
1. Russian Formalism: Entanglements at Birth and Later Reverberations
2. A Skeptic at the Cradle of Theory: Gustav Shpet's Reflections on Literature
3. Toward a Philosophy of Culture: Bakhtin beyond Literary Theory
4. The Boundaries of Modernity: Semantic Paleontology and Its Subterranean Impact
5. Interwar Exiles: Regimes of Relevance in Émigré Criticism and Theory
Epilogue: A Fast-Forward to "World Literature"
About the author
Galin Tihanov is the George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London.
Summary
A comprehensive account of all major trends in Russian interwar literary theory and its wider impact in our post-deconstruction and world literature era, this book attempts to answer two fundamental questions: What does it mean to think about literature theoretically, and what happens to literary theory when it is no longer available as an option?
