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».