This edited volume assembles the work of leading international scholars in a comprehensive history of Russian literary theory and criticism from 1917 to the pos

Russian Formalism is widely considered the foundation of modern literary theory. This book reevaluates the movement in light of the current commitment to rethin

Russian Formalism, one of the twentieth century's most important movements in literary criticism, has received far less attention than most of its rivals. Exami

This collection of essays resituates poetic works by Derzhavin, Krylov, Batisushkov, Pushkin, Girboedov, Lermontov, Baratynsky and Pavlova, within the force fie

Only Among Women reveals how the idea of a community of women as a social sphere ostensibly free from the taint of money, sex, or self-interest originated in th