Professor Alastair Renfrew's Outputs (31)

Against Adaptation: The Strange Case of (Pod)Poruchik Kizhe (2016)
Book Chapter
Renfrew, A. (2016). Against Adaptation: The Strange Case of (Pod)Poruchik Kizhe. In A. Burry, & F. White (Eds.), Border Crossing: Russian Literature into Film. Edinburgh University Press

Lenin and Utopia (2016)
Journal Article
Renfrew, A. (2016). Lenin and Utopia. Poetics Today: International Journal for Theory and Analysis of Literature and Communication, 37(2), 269-294. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3481943

The demise of the Soviet Union has for the past twenty-five years stood as effective “proof” of the error of utopia. This article returns to an ambivalent source of Soviet utopianism, Lenin's State and Revolution (1917), in order to show how the cont... Read More about Lenin and Utopia.

The Beginning and the End: The Formalist Paradigm in Literary Study (2015)
Book Chapter
Renfrew, A. (2015). The Beginning and the End: The Formalist Paradigm in Literary Study. In J. Rabaté (Ed.), 1922: Literature, Culture, Politics (145-167). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139629102.011

Uma Palavra Sobre a Matéria: Bakhtin e Tynianov (2014)
Journal Article
Renfrew, A. (2014). Uma Palavra Sobre a Matéria: Bakhtin e Tynianov. Conexão Letras (Impresso), 9(12), 87-111

Mikhail Bakhtin (2014)
Book
Renfrew, A. (2014). Mikhail Bakhtin. Routledge

Facts and Life: Osip Brik in the Soviet Film Industry (2013)
Journal Article
Renfrew, A. (2013). Facts and Life: Osip Brik in the Soviet Film Industry. Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, 7(2), 165-188. https://doi.org/10.1386/srsc.7.2.165_1

Of the former members of OPOIAZ who became involved in the cinema in the mid-1920s, Osip Brik pursued the most radical theoretical programme, ultimately arguing for the primacy of ‘material’ – or fact – over invention. This partially aligned him with... Read More about Facts and Life: Osip Brik in the Soviet Film Industry.

Scotland and the Nineteenth-Century World. (2012)
Book
Renfrew, A., Carruthers, G., & Goldie, D. (Eds.). (2012). Scotland and the Nineteenth-Century World. Rodopi

The Dialectics of Parody (2012)
Journal Article
Renfrew, A. (2012). The Dialectics of Parody. Poetics Today: International Journal for Theory and Analysis of Literature and Communication, 33(3-4), 301-328. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-1812144

Ivanovo detstvo (2012)
Book Chapter
Renfrew, A. (2012). Ivanovo detstvo. In E. Vasil'eva, & N. Braginskii (Eds.), Noev kovcheg russkogo kino: ot "Sten'ki Razina" do "Stiliag" (195-200). Globus-Press

Critical Theory in Russia and the West. (2010)
Book
Renfrew, A., & Tihanov, G. (Eds.). (2010). Critical Theory in Russia and the West. Routledge

The traditional view that the rise of western theoretical thought in the 1960s and 1970s could be traced back to the Soviet 1920s is increasingly challenged. For a long time this was acceptable to Russian theorists and western specialists alike, beca... Read More about Critical Theory in Russia and the West..

The Resurrection of a Poetics. (2010)
Book Chapter
Renfrew, A. (2010). The Resurrection of a Poetics. In A. Renfrew, & G. Tihanov (Eds.), Critical Theory in Russia and the West (1-25). Routledge

Kryl'ia kholopa (2008)
Other
Renfrew, A. (2008). Kryl'ia kholopa

Before Learning to Speak: Genre in Tarkovsky's Earlier Features. (2008)
Book Chapter
Renfrew, A. (2008). Before Learning to Speak: Genre in Tarkovsky's Earlier Features. In N. Dunne (Ed.), Tarkovsky (96-121). Black Dog Press

Brief Encounters, Long Farewells: Bakhtin and Scottish Literature (2007)
Journal Article
Renfrew, A. (online). Brief Encounters, Long Farewells: Bakhtin and Scottish Literature. International journal of Scottish literature,

Against Adaptation? The Strange Case of (Pod) Poruchik Kizhe (2007)
Journal Article
Renfrew, A. (2007). Against Adaptation? The Strange Case of (Pod) Poruchik Kizhe. Modern Language Review, 102(1), 157-176

The extent of the Russian Formalists' engagement with cinema has been obscured by their association with theories of the specificity of literature and a uniquely `poetic language'. The problematic history of the film adaptation of Iurii Tynianov's st... Read More about Against Adaptation? The Strange Case of (Pod) Poruchik Kizhe.

Towards a New Material Aesthetics: Bakhtin, Genre and the Fates of Literary Theory (2006)
Book
Renfrew, A. (2006). Towards a New Material Aesthetics: Bakhtin, Genre and the Fates of Literary Theory. Legenda

Set in the context of the various materialist approaches to literary aesthetics that emerged in the twentieth century, Renfrew's study presents a new synthesis of the work of the Bakhtin school, Russian Formalism, and elements of the 'official' ideol... Read More about Towards a New Material Aesthetics: Bakhtin, Genre and the Fates of Literary Theory.

A Word about Material (Bakhtin and Tynianov) (2006)
Journal Article
Renfrew, A. (2006). A Word about Material (Bakhtin and Tynianov). Slavonic and East European Review, 84(3), 419-445

The Bakhtin school's critique of Formalism as a `material aesthetics', culminating in Medvedev's The Formal Method, accurately identifies two conflicting conceptions of literary material in various Formalist analyses. The first, associated with fabul... Read More about A Word about Material (Bakhtin and Tynianov).

Kul't lichnosti [A Cult of Personality]. (2004)
Book Chapter
Renfrew, A. (2004). Kul't lichnosti [A Cult of Personality]. In V. Makhlin (Ed.), Bakhtinskii sbornik V (499-509). lazyki slavianskoi kul'tury

The serial studies the legacy of Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975). It includes the works of philosophers, philologists, literary historians and critics, and reflects the results of Bakhtin studies in Russia and abroad in the last 30 years: since the 1970s... Read More about Kul't lichnosti [A Cult of Personality]..

Beyond Scotland: New Contexts for Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature. (2004)
Book
Renfrew, A., Carruthers, G., & Goldie, D. (Eds.). (2004). Beyond Scotland: New Contexts for Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature. Rodopi

Scottish creative writing in the twentieth century was notable for its willingness to explore and absorb the literatures of other times and other nations. From the engagement with Russian literature of Hugh MacDiarmid and Edwin Morgan, through to the... Read More about Beyond Scotland: New Contexts for Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature..

[Alexander Mackay], 'MacDiarmid and Russia Revisited. (2004)
Book Chapter
Renfrew, A. (2004). [Alexander Mackay], 'MacDiarmid and Russia Revisited. In G. Carruthers, D. Goldie, & A. Renfrew (Eds.), Beyond Scotland (59-93). Rodopi

Scottish creative writing in the twentieth century was notable for its willingness to explore and absorb the literatures of other times and other nations. From the engagement with Russian literature of Hugh MacDiarmid and Edwin Morgan, through to the... Read More about [Alexander Mackay], 'MacDiarmid and Russia Revisited..