TY - BOOK ID - 78678640 TI - The birth and death of literary theory : regimes of relevance in Russia and beyond PY - 2019 SN - 1503609731 9781503609730 9780804785228 0804785228 PB - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Criticism KW - Literature KW - Formalism (Literary analysis) KW - Evaluation of literature KW - Literary criticism KW - Rhetoric KW - Aesthetics KW - Formalism (Russian literature) KW - Russian formalism (Literary analysis) KW - History KW - History and criticism KW - Theory, etc. KW - Influence. KW - Technique KW - Evaluation KW - Criticism. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General. KW - 1900-1999. KW - Russia (Federation). KW - Theory, etc KW - Influence KW - E-books KW - Aesthetics. KW - Canon Formation. KW - Exile. KW - Intellectual History. KW - Literary Theory. KW - Mikhail Bakhtin. KW - Regimes of Relevance. KW - Russian Formalism. KW - Semantic Paleontology. KW - World Literature. KW - Literature History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78678640 AB - Until the 1940s, when awareness of Russian Formalism began to spread, literary theory remained almost exclusively a Russian and Eastern European invention. The Birth and Death of Literary Theory tells the story of literary theory by focusing on its formative interwar decades in Russia. Nowhere else did literary theory emerge and peak so early, even as it shared space with other modes of reflection on literature. A comprehensive account of every important Russian trend between the world wars, the book traces their wider impact in the West during the 20th and 21st centuries. Ranging from Formalism and Bakhtin to the legacy of classic literary theory in our post-deconstruction, world literature era, Galin Tihanov provides answers to two fundamental questions: What does it mean to think about literature theoretically, and what happens to literary theory when this option is no longer available? Asserting radical historicity, he offers a time-limited way of reflecting upon literature—not in order to write theory's obituary but to examine its continuous presence across successive regimes of relevance. Engaging and insightful, this is a book for anyone interested in theory's origins and in what has happened since its demise. ER -