Notes From the Underground, or why were Russian Formalism and Structuralism Resisted by Soviet Non-Marxist Intellectuals?
In this paper I analyze what I call “Soviet resistance to theory”. Based on three brief study cases, I discuss how this resistance was not confined to the West and to the intrinsic exhaustion of the trust in language to secure access to truth. I argue that the specific resistance to Russian Formalis...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP) |
| Repositorio: | RUS (São Paulo) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistas.usp.br:article/216124 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.usp.br/rus/article/view/216124 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Formalismo russo Estruturalismo Teoria Teoria literária Structuralism Theory Literary theory Russian formalism |
| Sumario: | In this paper I analyze what I call “Soviet resistance to theory”. Based on three brief study cases, I discuss how this resistance was not confined to the West and to the intrinsic exhaustion of the trust in language to secure access to truth. I argue that the specific resistance to Russian Formalism and to Structuralism, one of the most expressive branches of which originated precisely outside Marxist tradition, had its own rationale and a subtle dynamic in the Soviet Union, a society in which theoretical innovation could and did at times display unexpected complicities with the ideological mainstream. |
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