CONTENTS

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Prologue: What This Book Is and Is Not About 1
5. Introduction: The Radical Historicity of Literary Theory 9
6. 1. Russian Formalism: Entanglements at Birth and Later Reverberations 26
7. 2. A Skeptic at the Cradle of Theory: Gustav Shpet’s Reflections on Literature 68
8. 3. Toward a Philosophy of Culture: Bakhtin beyond Literary Theory 96
9. 4. The Boundaries of Modernity: Semantic Paleontology and Its Subterranean Impact 134
10. 5. Interwar Exiles: Regimes of Relevance in Émigré Criticism and Theory 152
11. Epilogue: A Fast-Forward to “World Literature” 175
12. Notes 187
13. Bibliography 217
14. Index 245