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Summary
Examines the influence of Nietzsche on Russian Formalists, Russian Modernism, and Mikhail Bakhtin, reinforcing the importance of the modernist theoreticians by reading them in the contemporary theoretical context.
Throwing new light on the important thesis about the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche on Russian formalists and Russian modernism, this book presents this theme in the context of relevant research, and convincingly defines the extent of the claims advanced in the body of the text.
The author's close readings and competent incorporation of critical literature paradigmatically exemplify the truth of how precisely indeed literature 'reflects' the life of human societies; equally importantly, they also show that literature reveals its secrets only to the gaze of astute and alert readers. Together with a thorough knowledge and pertinent application of the scholarship in the field, and with frequent flashes of revealing insights and suggestive connections, close readings constitute the book's most consistently outstanding aspect, giving it increasingly more depth and dimension.
"The book tackles a subject and a national literature that need and deserve wider recognition and a competent insertion into the mainstream of post-structuralist thought that Western literatures have enjoyed without comparable prejudice for over a quarter of a century." -- Piotr Parlej, Russell Sage College
Dragan Kujundzic is Assistant Professor of Russian at The University of Memphis. He is the author of Critical Exercises and coeditor of two volumes of Bakhtin Collections.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1
Nietzsche
A Knight's Move: Nietzsche and the Genealogy of Russian Formalism
Russian Modernism: A Merry Science
The Modernist Paradigm and the Digestion of History
2
Parody
History as a Form of Parody/Parody as a Form of History
Parody, Bodily Remains, and the Leftovers of History
Tynianov and Bakhtin: Parody as a Malfunctioning Gramophone of History
On DerRIDEOlogy: Nietzschean Laughter in Bakhtin and Derrida
Bakhtin and the Post-Structuralist Condition
Writing and Laughter: Bakhtin and Derrida
3
Interval
The Interval and the Structure of Temporality
Maiakovsky and the Remains of the Literary Canon
The Interval as the Origin of the Work of Art: Akhmatova, Mandel'stam, Pasternak
4
Genre
The Literary Fact and the Law of Genre
Genre: A Borderline of Literary Space
Genre: A Borderline of Literary Time
5
Mausoleum
The Mummy: "The Most Glorious Victory of Form"
Maiakovsky and the Ventriloquism of History
Russian Formalism and the Birth of the Mausoleum
6
Museum
"The Wax Effigy" and the Form/aldehyde of History
The Kunstkamera : Museum in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
