This document is a summary of an excerpt from Jurij Tynjannov's 1927 work "On Literary Evolution". It discusses how formalist historiography does not discard the importance of major social factors, but rather seeks to fully elucidate their significance through analyzing the evolution of literature itself, rather than simply studying how social factors directly influenced or modified individual literary works.
This document is a summary of an excerpt from Jurij Tynjannov's 1927 work "On Literary Evolution". It discusses how formalist historiography does not discard the importance of major social factors, but rather seeks to fully elucidate their significance through analyzing the evolution of literature itself, rather than simply studying how social factors directly influenced or modified individual literary works.
This document is a summary of an excerpt from Jurij Tynjannov's 1927 work "On Literary Evolution". It discusses how formalist historiography does not discard the importance of major social factors, but rather seeks to fully elucidate their significance through analyzing the evolution of literature itself, rather than simply studying how social factors directly influenced or modified individual literary works.
[In formalist historiography,] the prime significance of major social factors is not at all discarded. Rather, it must be elucidated to its full extent through the problem of the evolution of literature. This is in contrast to the establishment of the direct influence of major social factors, which replaces the study of evolution of literature with the study of the modification of literary worksthat is to say, their deformation.