Prologue : what this book is and is not about -- Introduction : the radical historicity of literary theory -- Russian Formalism : entanglements at birth and later reverberations -- A skeptic at the cradle of theory : Gustav Shpet's reflections on literature -- Toward a philosophy of culture : Bakhtin beyond literary theory -- The boundaries of modernity : semantic paleontology and its subterranean impact -- Interwar exiles : regimes of relevance in émigré criticism and theory -- Epilogue : a fast forward to "world literature."
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