Persistent Forms

Contents      Foreword by Eric Hayot       1. Introducing Historical Poetics: History, Experience, Form       Ilya Kliger and Boris Maslov        Part I: Questioning the Historical, Envisioning a Poetics      2. From the Introduction to Historical Poetics: Questions and Answers (1894)      Alexander Veselovsky      3. Alexander Veselovsky's Historical Poetics vs. Cultural Poetics: Remembering the Future      Victoria Somoff      4. Historicist Hermeneutics and Contestatory Ritual Poetics: An Encounter between Pindaric Epinikion and Attic Tragedy      Leslie Kurke      5. Three Extensions of Veselovsky's Historical Poetics: Metapragmatics, Toposforschung, Marxist Stylistics      Boris Maslov       Part II: The Life of Forms: Tradition, Memory, Regeneration        6. The Oresteia in the Odyssey (1946)      Olga Freidenberg      7. Innovation Disguised as Tradition: Commentary and the Genesis of Art Forms      Nina V. Braginskaya      8. A Remnant Poetics: Excavating the Chronotope of the Kurgan      Michael Kunichika      9. On "Genre Memory" in Bakhtin      Ilya Kliger       Part III: Comparative Poetics and the Historicity of Experience      10. The Age of Sensibility (1904)      Alexander Veselovsky      11. Against Ornament: O. M. Freidenberg's Concept of Metaphor in Ancient and Modern Contexts      Richard Martin      12. Breakfast at Dawn: Alexander Veselovsky and the Poetics of Psychological Biography      Ilya Vinitsky      13. From the Prehistory of Russian Novel Theory: Alexander Veselovsky and Fyodor Dostoevsky on the Modern Novel's Roots in Folklore and Legend      Kate Holland       Part IV: Literary Genres in the Longue Duree      14. Satire (1940)      Mikhail Bakhtin      15. Columbus's Egg, or the Structure of the Novella (1973)      Mikhail Gasparov      16. On the Eve of Epic: Did the Chryses Episode in Iliad 1 Begin its Life as a Separate Homeric Hymn?      Christopher Faraone      17. Schematics and Models of Genre: Bakhtin and Soviet Satire      Robert Bird       Notes      Further Readings in Historical Poetics      List of Contributors      Index