Search Results for Galin Tihanov

..., transnationalism, and translation. In his latest book The Birth and Death of Literary Theory (2019), Galin Tihanov recalls the legacy of classical literary theory and propounds the contemporary discourse of world literature as an unreflected continuation of this legacy as it was articulated in Viktor Shklovsky’s...

...Bogdana Paskaleva At the core of this essay is an exploration of the notion of regime of relevance introduced by Galin Tihanov in his monograph The Birth and Death of Literary Theory (2019). On the one hand, the author traces the ramifications of Tihanov’s coinage and demonstrates possible arenas...

...Enyo Stoyanov This article highlights how the premises of the radical historicism of Galin Tihanov’s book The Birth and Death of Literary Theory (2019) are conditioned by developments within literary theory itself. For Tihanov, changes in literature’s perceived usefulness undermine the dominance...

...Maria Kalinova This essay focuses on the problem of translation, which Galin Tihanov regards as the afterlife of literary theory in his book The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond (2019). According to Tihanov, it is exactly through translation...

...Miglena Nikolchina This essay examines the entanglement of Galin Tihanov’s three regimes of relevance of literature—literature as art, literature as high-minded social engagement, and literature as popular entertainment—in the encounter between a literary theoretician (Tzvetan Todorov...

... Enyo . “ Literary Theory as Radical Historicism? ” Nikolchina 54 – 73 . Stoyanov Tzvetan . Kulturata kato obshtenie [Culture as Communication] . Sofia : Bylgarski pistel , 1988 . Tenev Darin . “ The Den of Theoretical Monsters .” Nikolchina 7 – 29 . Tihanov Galin...

... of Feminist Cultural Studies 2021 Galin Tihanov Jacques Derrida literary theory literature potentiality This teratorology is our normality. –Derrida The role of literary theory in the twentieth century can hardly be overestimated, and one should not be misled by the tendency dating from...

...Galin Tihanov This essay reflects the author’s interest in understanding the reasons for the growing resistance to theory witnessed over the last couple of decades. The first part attempts to demonstrate that literature and literary theory have been involved in complex dialectical moves between...