Tynianov Yu. Permanent Evolution: Selected Essays on Literature, Theory and Film

Academic Studies Press, 2019. — 378 p. — (Cultural Syllabus). — ISBN 9781644690628.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 EnglishA Note From the Editors-TranslatorsTheory 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
Theory Through History—Now
Literary Fact
Interlude
On Khlebnikov
Film—Word—Music
Evolution in Literature and Film
On the Screenplay
On Plot and Fabula in Film
The Foundations of Film
On Literary Evolution
Epilogue
Problems of the Study of Literature and Language (with Roman Jakobson)
On FEX
On Mayakovsky. In Memory of the Poet
On Parody
Appendix
Works Cited