. ' - [..•j i*. ? >■ \ - / THE BIRTH j 3 - / . AND DEATH OF LITERARY THEORY REGIME Si O F RUSSIA ND BEY N' ' Si \ N GALIN TIHANOV i i£.. i ■ V . . ■ THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF LITERARY THEORY ■ . ■ ' ■ •. THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF LITERARY THEORY REGIMES OF RELEVANCE IN RUSSIA AND BEYOND GALIN TIHANOY STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS STANFORD. CALIFORNIA Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 2019 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Tihanov, Galin, author. Title: The birth and death of literary theory: regimes of relevance in Russia and beyond / Galin Tihanov. Description: Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 20x8057691 (print) | LCCN 2018059673 (ebook) j ISBN 9781503609730 | ISBN 9780804785228 (cloth : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Criticism—Russia (Federation)—History—20th century. | Literature- History and criticism—Theory, etc, | Formalism (Literary analysis)—Influence. Classification: LCC PN99.R9 (ebook) | LCC PN99.R9 T54 2019 (print) | DDC 801/.950947—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018057691 Cover design: Rob Ehle Cover image: Olga Rozanova, Non-Objective Composition. Oil on canvas, 62 cm x 84.2 cm, 1917. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. FOR ADELINA - . - ■