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.

• AcknowledgementsA NoteFrom the Editors-TranslatorsIntroduction Daria KhitrovaPart One: Theory Through History—ThenDostoevsky and Gogol (Toward a Theory ofParody)Tyutchev and HeineThe Ode as an OratoricalGenreOn the Composition of Eugene OneginPart Two: Theory Through History—NowLiterary FactInterludeOn KhlebnikovFilm—Word—MusicPart Three: Evolutions in Literature and FilmOn the ScreenplayOn Plot and Fabula in FilmThe Foundations of FilmOn Literary EvolutionPart Four: EpilogueProblems of the Study of Literature andLanguage (with Roman Jakobson)On FEXOn Mayakovsky. In Memory of the PoetOn ParodyAppendixNames and TermsYuri Tynianov: Biographical NoteWorks Cited