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Boris Tomashevsky Boris Viktorovich Tomashevsky (Russian: Бори́ с Ви́ кторович Томаше́ вский, IPA: [təmɐˈʂɛfskʲɪj]; 29 November 1890, Saint-Petersburg – 24 August 1957,

Gurzuf) was a Russian Formalist literary critic, theorist of poetry,textual analyist, historian of Russian literature, Pushkin scholar, translator, and writer. He was a

Professor

Boris Tomashevsky Born

November 29, 1890 Saint Petersburg, Russia

Died

August 24, 1957 (aged 66) Gurzuf

Nationality

Russian

Education

PhD

member of the Moscow linguistic circle the OPOJAZ and the Union of Soviet Writers.

Biography Tomashevsky finished Gymnasium (high school) in 1908 but was unable to attend the Polytechnical Institute. He received training in statistics and electrical engineering in Liège and Paris.[1] and took classes at Sorbonna. Upon returning to Russia he came out with his first publications on questions of engineering and on

Alma mater Sorbonna

literary themes in 1915. He associated with the social circle connected with the

Known for

journal Apollo. He participated in World War I, fighting on the Austrian front from 1915 to 1918. At the end of the war he worked in Moscow . Moving to Petrograd, he ed the Art History Institute in 1921 but later moved to

Scientific career

the Pushkin House, where he managed the manuscript department in 1946-57 and the department of Pushkin studies in 1957. He started giving lectures on text

Fields

analysis, literary theory, and the work of Pushkin at the State Institute of Art History, From 1924 he taught in the department of Russian literature at Leningrad University. He died and was buried inGurzuf.[2]

Academic Activity Tomashevsky was involved in compiling the Ushakov Dictionary and supervised the first Soviet editions of Pushkin's and Dostoyevsky's collected works. He supervised the editing of A. N. Ostrovsky's collected works, A. P. Chekhov's selected texts, and

Literary critic, theorist of poetry and textual criticism, researcher of Pushkin's work, writer

Literary criticism, Textual criticism, Theory of poetry

Institutions Pushkin House, National Institute of Art History, Leningrad University Notable students

I. M. Semenko

later, the entire academic collection of Pushkin's collected works (1937-`949). He helped establish the Pushkin Museum in Gurzuf He participated in the в составлении словаря языка Пушкина and editing of Pushkin's "Literary Heritage" volumes. He helped with a number of publications of texts by poets from the eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries in a series called "Library of a Poet." He wrote major works on versification, poetics, stylistics, text analysis, Pushkin studies, and French poetry . He wrote Pushkin. Contemporary Problems of historical literary study in 1925. His monograph Theory of Literature (Poetics), also published in 1925, was the first systematic exposition of Formalist doctrine. Another important theoretical work is The Writer and the Book: An Outline of Textology (1928, second edition 1959). He was especially interested in the theory of versification. In his metrical [3] and succeeded in studies, following in the footsteps ofAndrey Bely, he applied statistical procedures to the study of Russian poetry

"raising versification to a quantified science".[4] His other major works include On Poetry (1929), A Short Course in Poetics (5th edition -Leningrad, 1931),and many articles.Tomashevsky's works have been translated into several languages.

References 1. Mikhail Bakhtin. Speech Genres and Other Late Essays. University of Texas Press, 1986. Page 8. 2. http://gurzufmuseum.com/muzej-bvtomashevskogo.html

3. Tzvetan Todorov. The Poetics of Prose. Cornell University Press, 1977. Page 265. 4. Quoted from: Evgeny Dobrenko, Marina Balina.The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2011. Page 272. Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boris_T omashevsky&oldid=796428140" This page was last edited on 20 August 2017, at 19:35(UTC). Text is available under theCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ; additional may apply. By using this site, you agree to the of Use and . Wikipedia® is a ed trademark of theWikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.