Galin Tihanov is the George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London.

Engaging and insightful, this is a book for anyone interested in theory's origins and in what has happened since its demise. ... About the Author. Galin Tihanov ...

Jun 16, 2021 · It was language, understood as a product and vehicle of human creativity, that underlay the notion of literariness put forth by Russian ...

Galin Tihanov is the George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author or editor of numerous books, ...

The Birth and Death of Literary Theory is “a book about the foundational paradoxes of literary theory and the regimes of relevance in which it is embedded” (1), ...

Jul 30, 2019 · "Eloquent and erudite, Galin Tihanov offers us a magisterial account of twentieth-century Russian literary theory. His book is not a survey but ...

The birth of World Literature as a field of reflection and study has little to do with academic literary scholarship. In fact, before this discourse began ...

Read an excerpt from The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond - Galin Tihanov.

Oct 16, 2019 · In The Birth and Death of Literary Theory, Galin Tihanov claims that literary scholarship emerging during the interwar years in Russia and ...

The birth and death of literary theory: regimes of relevance in Russia and beyond. G Tihanov. Stanford University Press, 2019. 129, 2019 ; The Bakhtin circle: In ...