Trott, Sylvia; (1992) B. M. Eikhenbaum 1918-1929: literary theory and cultural change. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), University of London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies (United Kingdom).

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This thesis concerns B M Eikhenbaum (1886 - 1959) and his work on Russian prose as a scholar, theorist and critic over a period from 1918 to 1929, in which he joined the Petrograd Society for the Study of Poetic Language (OPOIAZ), worked as a Formalist scholar at the State Institute for the History of the Arts (GUI) and Leningrad University, and, in 1927, began to produce work of a different, non-Formalist type. Considerable attention is paid to his books and articles on L N Tolstoi (particularly Molodoi Tolstoi (1922) and Lev Tolstoi (1928)) which demonstrate the different phases of his thought in the 1920s, and to his 1929 book Moi vrcmennik. The thesis discusses: 1 Eikhenbaum's background as a post-Symbolist critic from 1912 to 1917, the circumstances of his entry to OPOIAZ and his relations with his colleagues in it. 2 the principles of Formalist poetics demonstrated in works such as Molodoi Tolstoi and articles of 1918 to 1924; skaz and work on contemporary literature. 3 Eikhenbaum's polemical work as a member of OPOIAZ, both intra-literary (for example, relations with Zhirmunskii and Chukovskii) and extra-literary (the Marxist-Formalist controversy); his journalistic work on Russkii sovremennik and Zhizn' iskusstva. 4 Eikhenbaum's conception of history, the development of his political awareness (with the use of unpublished diary material) and his personal and professional crisis in 1925. 5 how contemporary social and political considerations affected Eikhenbaum's literary- historical articles and books from 1927 (the concept of literary byt). and the reactions to this work of his colleagues in OPOIAZ. 6 the genesis, character and purpose of Eikhenbaum's post-Formalist work from 1927 to 1929; his use of a 'second level' of discourse and techniques of analogy in literary history; his autobiographical writing in Moi vremennik.

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