Yury Tynyanov. Energy of the Form.pdf

This book contains articles published at different times, the theme of which is being determined by the innovation of Tynyanov-theorist. Collected under one cover they express, according to the author, the essence of the book’s title. The first theoretical article serves as an introduction to the general theme. And it also is a kind of pretext to the main “Onegin” block of the book, which represents the dynamic concept of literature and the Pushkin’s novel. The article on renewal and development of the Tynyanov's concept of “Eugene Onegin” in the 1960s, which revolutionized the understanding of the poetic novel, closes the Pushkin theme. The Pushkin’s novel in poetry became the reservoir of the theoretical energy of Yu. Tynyanov. Therefore, it is obvious that the language of the novel description and the scientific text of Tynyanov could have the correlative relationships. There is an article about it, devoted to the poetics of Tynyanov’s scientific prose. In two articles completing the book, Tynyanov is mentioned in the context of the main representatives of Russian formalism – Viktor Shklovsky and Boris Eichenbaum. The involvement of the two pillars of the formal method has no opposition significance, same as significance in the similarity of their research positions. Here was important to comprehend the difference in themes, “methods” and approaches of the famous formalists – V. Shklovsky, B. Eichenbaum and Yu. Tynyanov, and also to show that the literary centrism of formalists is far from a self-evident fact. The author did not set himself the task of recalling Tynyanov by praising his ideas in the existing cultural paradigm. According to the author, the main events of the book should be both – the energetic nature of Tynyanov’s theoretical constructions and the energy of the meta text offered to the book’s readers. The book is plump with quotations and citation exchange (for which we apologize to the readers), but which the author did not neglect, so as not to violate the integrity of the narration. Also, here is a technical clarification: all emphasized citations belong to the authors of the quoted texts. The author of the book intentionally tried to avoid the interpretation scheme, following the methodological installation, which Sergei Georgievich Bocharov in the preface to his book «Subjects of Russian Literature» outlined with a notable formula: «Literary criticism is also literature and a philologist is a writer».