Introduction to Literary Studies

V.M. Zhirmunsky (1891-1971), an outstanding philologist and academian, summarized many of his original observations in the field of verse theory and practice in lectures delivered at Leningrad University several decades ago; the lectures pay significant attention to the study of... the writer's biography, literary-critical evaluations of the works of writers by their contemporaries, scientific bibliography, and other issues. All points of the lecture course are supported by examples from the history of Russian, Western European, and Eastern literature.
The book is equipped with bibliographical references to the latest works on this topic.
For philologists - students, postgraduates, and teachers, as well as for high school teachers.