The birth and death of literary theory : regimes of relevance in Russia and beyond / Galin Tihanov.

Prologue : what this book is and is not about
Introduction : the radical historicity of literary theory
Russian Formalism : entanglements at birth and later reverberations
A skeptic at the cradle of theory : Gustav Shpet's reflections on literature
Toward a philosophy of culture : Bakhtin beyond literary theory
The boundaries of modernity : semantic paleontology and its subterranean impact
Interwar exiles : regimes of relevance in émigré criticism and theory
Epilogue : a fast forward to "world literature".