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The Library receives copies of most major theses awarded at ATU.

• Theses are held in print or online.
• Printed theses are for viewing in the library only and are held in the desk reserve area behind the information desk.
• Online theses can be viewed from any location, some are available on open access others require your ATU login credentials to access the full text.
• ATU's copyright terms and conditions apply.
• Please note some researchers have requested that their theses are not made available for consultation immediately or, in some cases, at all. 

The easiest way to find a print thesis in ATU Library on a particular topic, is to key in 'and thesis' in the search box with your search term, and selecting 'dissertation' in the content type filter. A search using the classic catalogue will work well for this type of content also.

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Research@THEA is the institutional repository for the Connacht-Ulster Alliance Libraries.

This repository makes research, taught masters and Ph.D theses from ATU , LYIT and ITSligo available online.

Other research, including conference proceedings and journal articles by staff and students are also available in the open access repository.

You can locate details of theses submitted in other Universities from the following open access sources:

• BASE , operated by Bielefeld University Library, is one of the world's biggest search engines especially for academic open access web resources.
• DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses.
• Digital Commons network is one of the biggest repositories in the academic world, bringing together free, full-text scholarly articles from universities and colleges worldwide.
• EThOS offers free access to the full text of selected UK theses.
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations is a global digital library of theses and dissertations.
• Open Access theses and dissertations aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.

There are many other open access resources available, all include theses and dissertations as a content type. See our LibGuide on Open Access for further information.

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Resources for Postgraduate Research Student Supervisors

• Research Professional Funding Database
• Epigeum Research Integrity Training
• Elsevier Science Direct APCs
• Research Impact Toolkit
• Promote Research Activities via the ATU Donegal Research Twitter page

Academic supervision is central to the successful completion of postgraduate research work. The supervisor(s) play a key role in designing the research project, guiding the postgraduate student in his/her work, maintaining the general direction of the research, setting and maintaining appropriate targets for academic standards along with preparing the student for submission of their final thesis for examination. Chapter 7 of the Quality Assurance Handbook (QAH) provides all the relevant information relating to Research and Research Supervision. The full QAH can be found here .

For convenience, Chapter 7, along with other forms that supervisors will need to be aware of, and that are referenced within Chapter 7 of the QAH, are available to download below:

RESEARCH PROFESSIONAL FUNDING DATABASE

ATU Donegal subscribes to the Research Professional funding opportunity platform. Research Professional is an online database of research funding opportunities from all UK, Irish and EU funding agencies in addition to other global agencies too. These funding opportunities cover all disciplines and the platform provides an easy to use and efficient search interface for all researchers. The Research Professional Database can be accessed both on and off site. At a high level you can log into the platform using your institute login details (email and password) to search for funding opportunities in your related discipline at the following link: https://www.researchprofessional.com/site/lkyit

To access the full range of features that Research Professional has to offer, users can set up their own account. This will enable users to:

• Save key searches and bookmarks
• Create email alerts for updates on new funding opportunities as they arise (it will return all national and international funding opportunities that you are eligible to apply for)
• How you can promote your research activities and news on the ATU Donegal Research Twitter page

For more information on how to access the Research Professional platform you can download the 'Quick Start Guide’ here  (click to download PDF) Or please click here where you will find a selection of videos that details how to set up your account and use the Research Professional platform.

If you have any questions regarding Research Professional please contact the [email protected] for further assistance.

RESEARCH INTEGRITY TRAINING

Research Integrity training is provided by ATU Donegal in the form of an online course from Epigeum. The new edition of the Research Integrity Training provides training which will cover every aspect of the research process, highlighting the potential issues that can arise while planning, conducting and reporting your research. It ultimately provides learners with a better understanding of their obligations and responsibilities as researchers. Assessment is then delivered at the end of the course with a selection of questions to ensure that learners demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge on the area of research integrity prior to being awarded a certificate of completion.

Below is a summary of the key benefits:

• Provide evidence of consistent research integrity training to minimize the risk of misconduct and meet the commitments to the National Policy Statement on Ensuring Research Integrity in Ireland
• Reinforce the practical, real-world applications of key principles with discipline-specific content, including Ireland specific video interviews, scenario-based activities, and polls
• Explore researchers’ professional responsibilities through a rich variety of interactive activities – building an awareness of what constitutes a healthy research culture
• Extend learning via additional links, resource banks, and references, then test understanding via summative quizzes, which generate certificates that can evidence course completion

The training is structured into eight core modules, with an additional 5 specialist modules. More information on the modules can be found in the Course Outline Document If you are interested in completing the Research Integrity training please contact the [email protected] .

For more information on Research Integrity please see the National Policy Statement on Ensuring Research Integrity in Ireland .

IUA/THEA/Elsevier Agreement APCs

What is the iua/thea/elsevier agreement.

Elsevier Science Direct is a database of online, peer reviewed, academic journals, published by Elsevier. ATU Donegal, has joined with THEA, University and TU libraries to negotiate a series of subscription agreements to Science Direct. In recent years, Elsevier have begun to offer authors the option to publish open access in some of their journals. For this, the authors, or their funders, must pay an Article Processing Charge (APC). When the THEA/IUA/TU agreement with Elsevier was due for renewal, an additional element was added. The fee paid by the institutions includes, not only access to Elsevier journals on subscription, but also covers the cost of a set of Article Processing Charges (APCs) for open access publishing in an agreed list of Elsevier journals. This will fund researchers/authors at the ATU Donegal, to publish a small number of open access articles in Elsevier journals each year.

How do Researchers/Authors use the agreement?

Articles are sometimes authored by individuals, or sometimes jointly authored. Where an article is jointly authored, one author is known as the Corresponding Author and the other authors are known as co-authors. To use one of ATU Donegal, APCs under the agreement requires the author (if only one) or the corresponding author (if there are multiple authors) to be affiliated to ATU Donegal (ie a researcher or staff member). Note: For the remainder of this information block "corresponding author" is used both for and individual author and for the corresponding author in the case of a multiple authors.

The agreement applies to an agreed list of Elsevier journals . The Corresponding Author of the article submits it to one of the journals from the list and it is put through the peer review process. An email is sent to the Corresponding Author to inform whether the article has been accepted for publication or not. If accepted, the email has a link, allowing the Author to login to Elsevier’s publishing platform and identify the Institution to which he/she is affiliated (For ATU Donegal Corresponding Authors, this will be ATU Donegal). If the institution is covered by the Irish THEA/IUA/TU/Elsevier agreement, the Corresponding Author is offered the choice of Subscription or Open Access publishing. If the Corresponding Author chooses Open Access, he/she is asked if he/she wants to fund the APC or to apply for one of the APCs covered by the agreement. If the Corresponding Author decides to apply for one of the APCs from the agreement, an email will go to the liaison person for the relevant institution. (This might be the Librarian or the Head of Research). This email contains a link allowing the liaison person to login to EOAP (Elsevier’s Open Access Platform) and either validate or reject the APC request. The Corresponding Author will then be informed of the decision. If the APC request is validated, the article will be published, open access, using one of the agreements funded APCs. If not, the author will be given the option to proceed with subscription publication or to use an alternative funding source for open access publication. Note: The Peer Review process which approves the article for publication is separate from the validation process which applies the APCs under the agreement. The former is an academic/research matter for the journal editors and reviewers. The latter is an administrative issue to allow the APC allocation under the agreement to be managed locally.

RESEARCH IMPACT TOOLKIT

Impact is an area of increasing focus and importance for research. The impact from research may be immediate, while in other cases it may only become evident in the years that follow. It can be classed as academic or societal and has the potential to affect many different areas of society from culture to policy to the environment. It is important for researchers to consider the potential ways in which their research may impact and ensure that this impact is positive, while mitigating any negative impacts.

University College Dublin have developed an open access toolkit which provides researchers with the resources and tools to plan, capture, communicate and monitor the impact of their research.

This Research Impact Toolkit can be accessed here

ATU Donegal RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

The ATU Donegal Research twitter page (@LYIT_Research) has been set up in order to promote the Research and Innovation activities ongoing at the ATU Donegal. This page also aims to promote funding opportunities, and all relevant research news and events.

If there is any research news and events or research/funding achievements that you would like promoted on this page please contact the [email protected] . Alternatively, please feel free to tag @LYIT_Research or use the hashtag #lyitresearch on any related posts.

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Dissertations & Theses

A selection of tu dublin dissertations and theses are available in the tu dublin libraries.  .

• Undergraduate dissertations and final-year projects are held in the libraries in hardcopy and online format.   
• Taught postgraduate dissertations are available to use in the library and online.   
• Research theses ‌are also available in print and online formats.  

Lists of hardcopy dissertations and access to eDissertations are available via the Library Catalogue from  this listing.     Or:  

To refine your search start at the  Library Catalogue:

• From the drop-down search menu choose:   Subject Search.  
• Input your program code e.g. TU856 or your program title e.g. BSc Computer Science.  
• Select the  eDissertations  option to view and open the pdf files (where available)  
• Select  Dissertations  to see the hardcopy listing and library location (where available)
• Sort the list by  Reverse Year  to view the newer titles.
• To access eDissertations off-campus you will need to access library services through your TU Dublin Single Sign-On.  

Hardcopy  dissertations are for Library Use only and may not be borrowed.  

Supervisors can submit dissertations here

Note: from 2021 onwards dissertations and final year projects will only be available as eDissertations.  

Research theses are generally available on  Arrow@TUDublin . Arrow is the institutional repository for the university and is where researchers make a version of their research theses and published articles or book chapters freely available.

View the research theses  collection for MPhil and PhD degrees.

Hardcopy theses:

A selection of research theses in hardcopy is also available for use in the library. View  this listing on our Library Catalogue.  

Hardcopy research theses are for use in the library only.

Theses from other universities are often available online. Here is a list of Research repositories - including TU Dublin's Arrow platform. 

• ARAN The digital collection of open-access scholarly publications from NUI Galway. ARAN collects, preserves and makes freely available scholarly communication, including peer-reviewed articles, working papers and conference papers created by NUI Galway researchers.
• Arrow@TU Dublin The research repository of TU Dublin. 
• CORE Provides open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and makes them available to the public.
• CORA (Cork Open Research Archive) CORA, the Cork Open Research Archive, gives you free open access to University College Cork’s scholarly and scientific research publications and theses.
• DART Europe DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. DART-Europe is endorsed by LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche), and it is the European Working Group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD).
• DBS eSource DBS eSource is an online service hosting full content materials produced by Dublin Business School staff and students. It contains the full text of articles, theses, conference papers, book chapters and more.
• DORAS DCU’s Open Access Institutional Repository, providing free online access to research publications and theses from Dublin City University, Ireland.
• e-publications@RCSI An open access repository of research and scholarly output of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The service is maintained and managed by RCSI Library.
• LENUS Irish health repository – Ireland’s leading source of health-related research and grey literature. Journal articles, dissertations, HSE publications and the collected output of more than 130 health organisations past and present are all freely accessible.
• Mary Immaculate College Research Repository Provides access the digital archive collections, and published and unpublished works of faculty and researchers at Mary Immaculate College
• Maynooth University ePrints and eTheses Archive  is an institutional repository of ePrints which showcases the research output of Maynooth University and St. Patrick’s College staff and postgraduate students.
• OPENAIRE Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe is network of Open Access repositories, archives and journals
• OpenDOAR Directory of global Open Access repositories
• Research Repository UCD A digital collection of open access scholarly research publications from University College Dublin. Research Repository UCD collects, preserves and makes freely available publications including peer-reviewed articles, working papers and conference papers created by UCD researchers.
• Research@THEA An online, predominately OA repository of the research and scholarly output of the CUA Institutes – Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT), Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT) and Institute of Technology, Sligo (IT Sligo)
• SHERPA A trial search service for the full-text of material held in UK open access repositories
• TARA The open access repository of Trinity College Dublin
• T-STÓR Teagasc’s Open Access Repository, maintained by the Teagasc Library Service. Stór is the Gaelic word for Repository or Store or Warehouse, and T-Stór is an online “store” of Teagasc Research outputs and related documents. T-Stór collects preserves and makes freely available scholarly communication, including peer-reviewed articles, working papers and conference papers created by Teagasc researchers.
• STOR Dundalk Institute of Technology’s Open Access (OA) Institutional Repository. Making DKIT’s research output, including theses and research papers, freely available to the public via the internet
• University of Limerick Institutional Repository Access digital archive collections, and published and unpublished works of faculty and researchers at the University of Limerick.  

HISTORY 495S/496S: Honors Thesis Seminar 2024/25

• Topic: China and Opium
• Thesis Writers & Duke Libraries
• Browse all Guides at Duke Libraries
• Define Archival Materials and Primary Sources
• Appreciate the "Finding Aid" for Archival Material
• Search Across Finding Aid Portals
• Organize and Cite Your Sources
• Topic: The West and the Soviet Union
• Topic: France Colonialism
• Topic: NAZI Germany Persecution US Perceptions
• Topic: US and Bosnia 1992–1995
• Topic: Counter Culture and Black Power Movements
• Topic: Canada and the American Civil War
• Topic: Asante Female Power
• Topic: Trinity College, Black Workers, and Durham
• Topic: Cherokee Women, Property, Law, and Slavery
• Topic: Sexual Assault in US. Army
• Topic: Page Act
• Topic: Credit Lending and the Rise of Investment Banking
• Topic: Child Welfare Legislation
• Topic: Reagan to 9/11: Impacts on American Muslim Communities
• Topic: Impact of Rabbinical Teachings on Israeli Settlers Violence 1967-1980
• Topic: Anti-imperialist music of Colombia

Subject Librarian

Duke primary source databases related to the topic, article databases on this topic, books on this topic.

Luo Zhou, Chinese Studies Librarian, [email protected]

• Chinese Studies
• Sidney Gamble Photographs, 1908-1932 

This guide is on English language sources, resources in Chinese can be provided if needed.

• China: Culture and Society This link opens in a new window Search for primary sources from a rare pamphlets collection on East Asia. Includes secondary resources like essays, an interactive chronology and mini guides
• China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980 This link opens in a new window Search for primary sources on the activities and observations of British and American diplomats, missionaries, business people and tourists in China
• China and the Modern World This link opens in a new window Search primary sources on diplomacy/international relations, economy/trade, politics, Christianity, sinology, education, science and technology, imperialism, and globalization in 19th and 20th century China.
• Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980 This link opens in a new window Search British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980
• Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange This link opens in a new window Search for primary source materials related to the study of global commodities, transported, exchanged and consumed around the world for hundreds of years
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chinese Newspapers Collection This link opens in a new window Search for news articles from Chinese Newspapers from 1832-1953
• Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) This link opens in a new window Search for journal articles and books published worldwide pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences)

Search a collection of important scholarly journals representing a range of disciplines.

Search for journal articles in the humanities and social sciences published by university presses, including the Duke University Press

Find books in Duke's catalog using keywords: China, Opium, "drug control". and limit language to English. See some examples:

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• Interlibrary Loan Can't find the article, book, or report you need at our library? You can request it from another library through interlibrary loan.
• Open Access Button Browser extension that searches for open access versions of articles you may find behind pay walls.
• Unpaywall Browser extension that searches for open access versions of articles you may find behind pay walls.

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• Oxford Bibliographies Online Provides sophisticated online recommendations to the core scholarship on a subject as determined by experts in the field. Each module constitutes a convenient and comprehensive introduction to the essential body of literature that has shaped research on a topic. At the click of a mouse, you therefore have 24/7 access to expert recommendations that have been rigorously peer-reviewed and vetted to ensure scholarly accuracy and objectivity. Each OBO subject database allows you to identify the core authors, works, ideas, and debates that have shaped the scholarly conversation so you can find the key literature. All the bibliographic essays have been peer-reviewed, and the specific entries are linked to full-text content available through the web or the UNC Library. The "My OBO" feature also allows you to create a personalized list of citations. more... less... Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill student, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users

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A few key databases focused on Anthropology and Sociology may be helpful starting points -- but there are also many more resources that can be found on the  E-Research by Discipline  tab or by exploring other  Research Guides  on the library website. 

1. Aggregators

Commercial aggregators (library pays for these).

Most databases the Library pays for are either ProQuest or EBSCO products. They index articles from a variety of journals and provide full text for some of the content. It is possible to search across all ProQuest or EBSCO databases, which is useful when your topic is interdisciplinary, but can sometimes make for a longer and messier list of results.

Go into any ProQuest database, e.g. ProQuest Central --> Change databases (top menu) --> Select all --> Do your search

• can limit results to peer-reviewed articles
• ProQuest product called Summon, which attempts to search across many of the databases UNC pays for.
• Repository of academic journal content.
• Elsevier product focusing on hard sciences and health sciences, but with continually increasing social sciences and humanities content.

Open aggregators (Library pays for some of this content)

You will need to check whether the Library has access to the content you find here. Request anything you can't access through document delivery/interlibrary loan .

GoogleScholar

Self explanatory, but link it to the Library when off campus for full-text access.

• A "a free and open catalog of the world's scholarly research system". May be the largest open aggregator after GoogleScholar.
• Linked data-based aggregator. Digital Science product.

Semantic Scholar

• Open and free aggregator. Allen Institute for AI product.

Aggregator of open access research papers from institutional repositories around the world.

2. Library Databases

E-research by discipline.

• This is where all library databases live.

Anthropology Databases

Newspaper and news media archives, 3. the "big 5" (library pays for most of this content).

Five publishers have bought up a large portion of academic journals. One benefit is that you can search across journals on their websites.

Taylor & Francis

Finding books.

Discover books, journals, films, primary source collections, government documents, and other materials held at UNC and in the Triangle (you can request materials from Duke, NC State and NC Central) as well as a variety of open access publications.

Joint catalog of materials held at North American and some European National Libraries.

WorldCat has a subscription version  FirstSearch , with more robust advanced search options, but a less modern interface. You can request most titles that UNC does not have through  Interlibrary Loan .

Books will also show up in some of the databases and aggregators above.

Finding dissertations and theses

• Carolina Digital Repository Anthropology Dissertations Theses and dissertations defended at UNC-Chapel Hill.
• CORE A searchable collection of open access research papers and datasets. more... less... Access: No restrictions.
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Dissertation and thesis aggregator pulling from dissertation repositories including DART-Europe E-theses Portal, EThOS e-theses online service (British Library), Theses Canada and others.
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global Indexes US dissertations from 1861 with full text available from 1997; masters theses covered selectively including some full text. Citations for dissertations from 1980 include 350-word abstracts, while masters' theses from 1988 have 150-word abstracts. Selectively covers dissertations from Great Britain and other European universities for recent years. In addition to this database, the full text of the majority of UNC theses and dissertations from 2006, and all beginning in 2008, are freely available electronically from the UNC Library: Dissertations | Theses more... less... Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users. Coverage: 1861 to present
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations Search engine and access tool to millions of graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. more... less... Access: No restrictions.

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Library Data Services cater to researchers interested in working with data, mapping, texts, visualization, and technology. Many of these services are available online. Davis Library Data Services, located on the second floor of Davis Library, offers:

• A computing lab with specialized software for GIS and data visualization & analysis.
• Walk-in assistance provided by knowledgeable student consultants during set hours . 
• Consultations with specialists for more in-depth inquiries (by appointment).
• Spaces for collaboration and presentation, complete with white boards and external displays.
• Technology workshops focused on working with data (manipulation, visualization, mapping).

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The Lenin Institute for Librarianship by Ivan Leonidov (1927)

October 30, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Ivan Illich Leonidov (1902-1957) designed the Lenin Institute for Librarianship (the collective scientific and cultural center of the USSR) in 1927 as his thesis project at the VKhUTEMAS, the art and technical School of Moscow, with Alexander Vesnin as his tutor.

The Institute is made of a series of individualized shapes embodied by clear geometrical forms – mostly rectangular boxes and a sphere – which are boldly composed together. The three main buildings of the institute are a massive library with five million books joined by the Institute of librarianship, both contained in a high-rise building; the auditorium which also functions as a planetarium and as a speaking platform for mass demonstrations, located in a huge glass sphere elevated from the floor through a metallic structure; and the actual research institute hosting the research labs, a horizontal slab, suspended, which also connects the two other buildings. The single volumes are related through the composition of two asymmetrical axes on a decentralized circular platform where both the auditorium and the library are located. The library axis is also prolonged by a straight suspended roadway leading to the city center.

An important feature of the overall design is the presence of steel cables with the double role of guy-wires in tension and radio communication antennae. The cables counterbalance the anti-gravitational effect of the highest buildings and especially that of the auditorium which appears as a hot-air balloon ready to take a flight. They also underline the idea of communication among the people working together in the institute and in the whole country.

The center was supposed to be located in Moscow, on the Lenin Hills, the highest spot in the city, just a few kilometers southwest of the Red Square. An aerial tramway with a central aerodrome and suspended roadway would have connected the institute with the center of the city while the radio station would have put it in communication with the whole country.

As to underline an era of unlimited faith in an upcoming technological world, the role of technology is formally and functionally expressed throughout the whole project, especially in the library where an automated book-delivery system with a vertical and horizontal conveyor system delivers the books directly from the stacks to the reading rooms.

The sphere is the most evolutive area: as an auditorium, it can host up to 4000 people, but it can be repartitioned through mobile suspended walls in order to contain smaller audiences. When half of the sphere is opened, and all the seats are withdrawn into the remaining half, it can also be used as a speaking platform for mass gatherings. The sphere of the Planetarium can turn into a science theater after projection screens are installed along the inside skin. A system of elevators provides access to the auditorium.

The whole institute is equipped with communication technology like telephones, radios, and remote televisual pieces of equipment so that the whole staff can work together at the same time.

Further reading : https://thecharnelhouse.org/2014/03/21/ivan-leonidovs-proposal-for-the-lenin-institute-in-moscow-1927/

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June 29, 2020 at 6:27 pm

Hi there! Great essay and fantastic illustrations. I’d be keen to re-use some of the Leonidov ‘Lenin Institute’ images in academic publications. Would you be able to let me know where you sourced them from? I want to confirm that they are indeed free of copyright (or to find out who holds the copyright, so I can apply for permission/license to reproduce). Many thanks!

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Introduction to Jakobson-Tynyanov Theses (on Formalism)

T he Russian Formalist school of literary criticism and linguistic studies emerged shortly before the Russian revolution. The Moscow Linguistic Circle was formed in 1915; the St. Petersburg Society for the Study of Poetic Language ( Opoyaz ) in 1916. These two groups launched a savage polemical attack upon existing academic orthodoxy: neo-grammarians, symbolists, psychologists, sociologists, historians of ideas. They found their allies among the futurist poets—Brik, Khlebnikov and Mayakovsky—and they consolidated their ideas by introducing new concepts from outside Russia: in particular, they drew heavily on the work of De Saussure (referred to in the sixth of the theses that follow) and Husserl. The Moscow Group, whose most dynamic member was Roman Jakobson, tended to be more interested in Linguistics; the Opoyaz group was made up mostly of literary historians.

The Bolshevik Revolution created a vacuum into which the Formalists promptly stepped. They soon constituted the leading school of literary studies in the Soviet Union. Their main centre of activity was the Petrograd Institute of Art History, where such leading Formalists as Eichenbaum, Shklovsky, Tomashevsky and Tynyanov all worked. However, the Revolution also meant that Formalism became increasingly criticized by orthodox Marxist writers. The most important critiques of Formalism were made by Trotsky, Bukharin and Lunacharsky. In order to defend themselves the Formalists were compelled to elaborate their theoretical positions and put forward views on such topics as the relationship between social life and literature, which in their enthusiasm for discussion of such literary devices as parody or alliteration they had previously ignored. In the theses that follow the stormy disputes surrounding the Formalists are cryptically evoked particularly in the conclusion of the last thesis.

The Formalists gradually came under increasing pressure. Jakobson left Moscow in 1920 and went to Prague. The others who remained began to engage in a cautious polemic with their Marxist critics.

a specific ‘literary economics’ to match the specificity of formal literary studies.

Much the most interesting attempt at a re-statement of the Formalist position came from Jakobson and Tynyanov in 1928. They transformed the evolutionary approach of Eichenbaum into a structuralist approach influenced by De Saussure. De Saussure defined a diachronic order as one in which each ‘moment’ can only be understood in terms of all those which have preceded it: in a bridge game, the meaning of any trick depends on all the tricks before it and cannot be understood without knowledge of them. In contrast, a synchronic order is one in which the meaning of any moment is inherent in the present: it is co-extensive with the relationship of all the existing data to each other. Thus, at any move, a game of chess is always comprehensible without reference to any of the previous moves. For Jakobson and Tynyanov, each synchronic system was correlated with other systems. But to avoid the reductionist connotations of such terms as ‘level’ (‘economic level’, ‘political level’ of a society) and to suggest dynamic movement, they used the term ‘series’ to delimit each field of enquiry. This usage has nothing to do with Sartre’s concept, discussed elsewhere in these pages.

However, the Jakobson-Tynyanov theses—lapidary and compressed—were the culmination of a movement which was near its end. In 1930 Shklovsky recanted; the other Formalists were soon silenced. Tynyanov took to writing historical novels; he died in 1943. Jakobson stayed in Prague till the war, going ahead with the work already begun of transforming Formalism into Structuralism. Then he emigrated to the United States; he now teaches at Harvard and mit . It was largely through Jakobson that the Formalist contribution to intellectual history was kept alive: he became a crucial influence on Levi-Strauss, with whom he collaborated on a study of Baudelaire’s poem Les Chats . Today Formalism is once more beginning to receive the recognition it deserves: Tynyanov’s memoirs are being serialized in Novy Mir ; a collection of Formalist writings has appeared in France and a study has been written and recently re-published in the Netherlands by Victor Erlich. It is time that this growing interest spread to Britain too.

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