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A key figure in the Russian Formalist school of literary theory, Yuri Tynianov sought to revolutionize¿and liberate¿thinking about literature and the other arts.
Permanent Evolution gathers together for the first time Tynianov¿s seminal articles on literary theory and film.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
A Note
From the Editors-Translators
IntroductionDaria KhitrovaPart 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 OneginPart 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
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.
Summary
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. 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.
