Permanent Evolution: Selected Essays on Literature, Theory and Film - Paperback

by Yuri Tynianov (Author), Ainsley Morse (Editor), Ainsley Morse (Translator)

A key figure in the Russian Formalist school of literary theory, Yuri Tynianov sought to revolutionize-and liberate-thinking about literature and the other arts. Permanent Evolution gathers together for the first time Tynianov's seminal articles on literary theory and film.

Author Biography

Yuri Tynianov (1894-1943) was a Russian writer and literary theorist, and a central figure among the revolutionary-era scholars who came to be known as the Russian Formalists.

Ainsley Morse is a literary translator and an assistant professor in the Russian Department at Dartmouth College. Her scholarly work is focused on literature of the twentieth century, particularly the Soviet period. She has translated poetry, prose and scholarly works from Russian and the languages of the former Yugoslavia.

Philip Redko is a translator, editor, and teacher. He holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Harvard and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.