YU. TYNYANOV''S FORMAL METHOD AND HISTORY OF LITERATURE STUDY: PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS
Russian formal school is analyzed in the article's format as a special phenomenon of philosophical and methodological thought. The importance of Yu. Tynyanov's methodological approach to the understanding of the text nature and the way of cultural phenomena analysis in humanities is revealed. Yu.N. Tynyanov's views on the evolution of literature in the formal method perspective are interpreted with special reference to their philosophical foundations.