Persistent forms : explorations in historical poetics / Ilya Kliger and Boris Maslov, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kliger, Ilya, editor.

Maslov, Boris, 1982- editor.

Series:

Verbal arts--studies in poetics.

Verbal Arts--Studies in Poetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetics--History.

Poetics.

Literature and history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"Drawing inspiration from the Russian and Soviet tradition of historical poetics, the contributors to the volume seek to challenge and complement the historicism that stresses proximate socio-political contexts as well as the more recent and salutary concern with understanding literary production and reception on a global scale with the perspective of the longue duree of literary forms and institutions"-- Provided by publisher.

"Since the mid-1980s, attempts to think history and literature together have produced much exciting work in the humanities. Indeed, some form of historicism can be said to inform most of the current scholarship in literary studies, including work in poetics, yet much of this scholarship remains undertheorized. Envisioning a revitalized and more expansive historicism, this volume builds on the tradition of Historical Poetics, pioneered by Alexander Veselovsky (1838-1906) and developed in various fruitful directions by the Russian Formalists, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Olga Freidenberg. The volume includes previously untranslated texts of some of the major scholars in this critical tradition, as well as original contributions which place that tradition in dialogue with other thinkers who have approached literature in a globally comparatist and evolutionary-historical spirit. The contributors seek to challenge and complement a historicism that stresses proximate sociopolitical contexts through an engagement with the longue duree of literary forms and institutions. In particular, Historical Poetics aims to uncover deep-historical stratifications and asynchronicities, in which formal solutions may display elective affinities with other, chronologically distant solutions to analogous social and political problems. By recovering the traditional nexus of philology and history, Persistent Forms seeks to reinvigorate poetics as a theoretical discipline that would respond to such critical and intellectual developments as Marxism, New Historicism, the study of world literature, practices of distant reading, and a renewed attention to ritual, oral poetics, and genre"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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Contents

Foreword by Eric Hayot

1. Introducing Historical Poetics: History, Experience, Form

Ilya Kliger and Boris Maslov

Part I: Questioning the Historical, Envisioning a Poetics

2. From the Introduction to Historical Poetics: Questions and Answers (1894)

Alexander Veselovsky

3. Alexander Veselovsky's Historical Poetics vs. Cultural Poetics: Remembering the Future

Victoria Somoff

4. Historicist Hermeneutics and Contestatory Ritual Poetics: An Encounter between Pindaric Epinikion and Attic Tragedy

Leslie Kurke

5. Three Extensions of Veselovsky's Historical Poetics: Metapragmatics, Toposforschung, Marxist Stylistics

Boris Maslov

Part II: The Life of Forms: Tradition, Memory, Regeneration

6. The Oresteia in the Odyssey (1946)

Olga Freidenberg

7. Innovation Disguised as Tradition: Commentary and the Genesis of Art Forms

Nina V. Braginskaya

8. A Remnant Poetics: Excavating the Chronotope of the Kurgan

Michael Kunichika

9. On "Genre Memory" in Bakhtin

Ilya Kliger

Part III: Comparative Poetics and the Historicity of Experience

10. The Age of Sensibility (1904)

11. Against Ornament: O. M. Freidenberg's Concept of Metaphor in Ancient and Modern Contexts

Richard Martin

12. Breakfast at Dawn: Alexander Veselovsky and the Poetics of Psychological Biography

Ilya Vinitsky

13. From the Prehistory of Russian Novel Theory: Alexander Veselovsky and Fyodor Dostoevsky on the Modern Novel's Roots in Folklore and Legend

Kate Holland

Part IV: Literary Genres in the Longue Duree

14. Satire (1940)

Mikhail Bakhtin

15. Columbus's Egg, or the Structure of the Novella (1973)

Mikhail Gasparov

16. On the Eve of Epic: Did the Chryses Episode in Iliad 1 Begin its Life as a Separate Homeric Hymn?

Christopher Faraone

17. Schematics and Models of Genre: Bakhtin and Soviet Satire

Robert Bird

Notes

Further Readings in Historical Poetics

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8232-6685-0

0-8232-6488-2

OCLC:

927384648