The Dialectics of Parody
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4375674 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alastair Renfrew (0009-0005-9154-9895, Durham University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 301-328 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/03335372-1812144 |
| OpenAlex | W2022358013 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
Iurii Tynianov's characterization of the relationship between Fyodor Dostoevsky and Nikolai Gogol as parodic, which he later develops into a broader concern with the mechanics of literary evolution, also provokes a concern with the specifically dialectical nature of the change of historical forms. Rather than viewing this interest in dialectics as a tactically convenient phase in the accommodation of Formalism to the ideological requirements of the Soviet 1920s, the present article interprets Tynianov as the author of a particular "literary-historical" dialectic: it pre-dates the reifying tendencies of "official" Soviet dialectical materialism and is intimately related to the key Formalist category of "estrangement." This dialectic proceeds from textual relationships (hence the initial focus on parody) as opposed to relationships between "base concepts." It can usefully be related to Fredric Jameson's recent attempt to reconnect dialectical thought with the rise and fall of various strands of twentieth-century theory (structuralism and deconstruction chief among them). Jameson's revisionism is then extended to a consideration of a personalized, "dialogic" dialectic in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin
Aesthetics · Art · Dialectic · Dialogic · Epistemology · Formalism (music · Fyodor · Ideology · Literature · Political science · Politics · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Law · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
Readings in Russian poetics
Marx's Ecology
Mikhail Bakhtin
The Prison-House of Language
The Problem of the Text in Linguistics, Philology, and the Human Sciences
Handbook of Russian Literature
Red Virgin Soil. Soviet Literature in the 1920s
Russian Futurism through Its Manifestoes, 1912-1928
Literature and Revolution
The Politics of Estrangement
Minding the Gap
The Ode as an Oratorical Genre
Telling in Time (III)
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |