Tynyanov as Sociologist of Literature

TY - JOUR

T1 - Tynyanov as Sociologist of Literature

AU - Lovell, Stephen

PY - 2001

Y1 - 2001

N2 - By re-examining several of Tynyanov's key concepts (history, parody, sistemnost, ustanovka, dominanta, the 'literary fact', byt, the literary and extra-literary 'series', and the reader), this article suggests ways in which they can be used to inform non-'Formalist' theoretical agendas - and thereby offers a new perspective from which to explore the development, overall coherence and wider import of Tynyanov's work. It is argued that Tynyanov's writings can serve to problematize a number of binary pairs that have given rise to much intellectual debate in later decades: history and theory; historicism and system- building; necessity and chance; structuralism and subjectivity; the general and the particular; science and art; Lotman and Bakhtin;literature and society.

AB - By re-examining several of Tynyanov's key concepts (history, parody, sistemnost, ustanovka, dominanta, the 'literary fact', byt, the literary and extra-literary 'series', and the reader), this article suggests ways in which they can be used to inform non-'Formalist' theoretical agendas - and thereby offers a new perspective from which to explore the development, overall coherence and wider import of Tynyanov's work. It is argued that Tynyanov's writings can serve to problematize a number of binary pairs that have given rise to much intellectual debate in later decades: history and theory; historicism and system- building; necessity and chance; structuralism and subjectivity; the general and the particular; science and art; Lotman and Bakhtin;literature and society.

M3 - Article

VL - 79

SP - 415

EP - 433

JO - Slavonic & East European Review

JF - Slavonic & East European Review

IS - 3

ER -