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.
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