The Influence of Russian Symbolists' Lit­erature Studies on V. M. Zhirmunsky's Understanding of Poetics as an Academic Discipline

The article also deals with Zhirmunskiy's prologue to the book "Issues of the Theory of Literature" (1928), which helps shed new light on his evaluation of Russian symbolists in the final edition of the "Goals of Poetics". For example, in the late 1920s Zhirmunskiy views Bryusov's role in establishing poetics as an academic discipline in a slightly different way, compared to the initial text of the "Goals of Poetics". Thus, the purely theoretical aspect of comprehending the symbolists' heritage intertwines with the literary-aesthetic fight of those years. The understanding of poetics as an academic discipline by Zhirmunskiy, the formalists and in the literature studies of the 1910s-1920s in general goes back to the theoretical heritage of Russian symbolism.В статье рассматривается работа В. М. Жирмунского "Задачи поэтики", в которой отразилась динамика отношения ученого к литературоведческому наследию русского символизма