Permanent Evolution

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.

Acknowledgements
A NoteFrom the Editors-Translators
Introduction Daria Khitrova
Part One: Theory Through History—Then
Dostoevsky and Gogol (Toward a Theory ofParody)
Tyutchev and Heine
The Ode as an OratoricalGenre
On the Composition of Eugene Onegin
Part Two: Theory Through History—Now
Literary Fact
Interlude
On Khlebnikov
Film—Word—Music
Part Three: Evolutions in Literature and Film
On the Screenplay
On Plot and Fabula in Film
The Foundations of Film
On Literary Evolution
Part Four: Epilogue
Problems of the Study of Literature andLanguage (with Roman Jakobson)
On FEX
On Mayakovsky. In Memory of the Poet
On Parody
Appendix
Names and Terms
Yuri Tynianov: Biographical Note
Works Cited