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    His current work is on world literature, cosmopolitanism, and exile. Galin Tihanov is the George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary. He is the author of five books; his research ranges from Russian and German intellectual history to world literature, cultural theory, cosmopolitanism, and exile.
    Galin Tihanov, The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019. 258 pages. $60. Hardcover ISBN: 9,780,804,785,228 | Studies in East European Thought Galin Tihanov, The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond.
    Tihanov interprets this work against the background of the German debates on modernity that unfolded during the Nazi period. He points out that such terms as “heteroglossia” and “horizon” were first used by the German sociologist Hans Freyer, whose work Bakhtin must have known.
    As Tihanov demonstrates in his nuanced analyses of Russian Formalism and Bakhtin’s philosophy of culture (discussed in chapters 1 and 3, respectively), the rejection of aesthetics by these scholars was symptomatic of a larger crisis—the crisis of traditional humanism that saw human beings as the center of the universe.
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  3. WEBGalin Tihanov is the George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London. Until the 1940s, when awareness of Russian Formalism began to spread, literary theory …

  4. WEBGalin Tihanov’s new book, The Birth and Death of Literary Theory (2019), chronicles the birth of theory, yet begins and ends with its death. In most anthologies of literary theory, Russian Formalism holds a comparable …

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