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.

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