Coiled Verbal Spring - Devices of Lenin's Language
Rab-Rab, ISBN 9789529411382,
Pb, 368 pgs, 14 x 21cm
Acqn. 32666
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£20.25
Pb, 368 pgs, 14 x 21cm
Acqn. 32666
Awaiting stock
£20.25
The book includes the Russian Formalists' (Viktor Shklovsky, Boris Eikhenbaum, Yuri Tynyanov, Boris Tomashevsky, Lev Yakubinsky, and Boris Kazansky) most "political" texts, first published in 1924 in the journal of the Left Front of the Arts (edited by Mayakovsky). Together with this collection, the publication also includes Futurist poet Alexei Kruchenykh's Devices of Lenin's Speech, from 1925. Indispensable for any serious research dealing with the relationship between revolutionary politics and artistic forms, these writings had remained a marginal note, both in studies on avant-garde art, and in much literature on Formalist theory.