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.

Acknowledgements
A Note From the Editors-Translators

Introduction
Daria Khitrova

Part One: Theory Through History—Then
Dostoevsky and Gogol (Toward a Theory of Parody)
Tyutchev and Heine
The Ode as an Oratorical Genre
On the Composition of Eugene Onegin

Part Two: Theory Through History—Now
Literary Fact
Interlude
On Khlebnikov
Film—Word—Music

Part Three: Evolutions in Literature and Film
On the Screenplay
On Plot and Fabula in Film
The Foundations of Film
On Literary Evolution

Part Four: Epilogue
Problems of the Study of Literature and Language (with Roman Jakobson)
On FEX
On Mayakovsky. In Memory of the Poet
On Parody

Appendix
Names and Terms
Yuri Tynianov: Biographical Note