Tynyanov’s Pushkiniana

In his final paper «Pushkin» Tynyanov has pointed out the two-sidedness of Pushkin’s semantics as a major factor of the poet’s literary evolution («of catastrophic force and speed»). The semantic two-sidedness produces «varying» meanings and hence can act as a kind of regulator of contradictory comprehension of Pushkin by his contemporaries and subsequent literary generations. In this context, it is important to note Tynyanov’s interest in «a high ode», having a dual, two-sided nature. Tynyanov’s formalistic orientations excluded, on the one hand, the efficiency of psychological approach to the description of literary phenomena; on the other – provided the necessary conditions for creating poetic forms, i. e. theoretically substantiated literary models.

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