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This major volume comprises the seminal essays of Russian Formalist Yuri Tynianov (1894â1943) on Pushkinâs artistic development and the evolution of 19th-century Russian poetry. The essays cover a wide range of subjects, centring on Pushkinâs evolution as a poet, but also considering his prose. Tynianov deconstructs the âlone geniusâ myth and explores the literary and historical context which reveals the social nature of the creative process, in which geniuses do not make their breakthroughs entirely independently from others. Pushkinâs interaction with the wide and varied circle of literary figures provides a deeper understanding of what came to be known as the âPushkin ageâ. The previously untranslated texts allow for readings of Tynianovâs historical fiction within the context of his scholarly studies, and his creative works as the testing ground for discoveries which were later developed theoretically in his scholarship.
Russian Formalist Yuri Tynianov (1894â1943) was an influential scholar of literary evolution, parody and poetic language, a literary critic, screenwriter and the author of historical novels. Anna Kurkina Rush (Ph.D., University of St Andrews) and Professor Emeritus Peter France (Edinburgh University) have previously translated Tynianovâs 1925 novel âKüchlyaâ about Pushkinâs Lycée classmate and friend Wilhelm Küchelbecker.