{"product_id":"viktor-shklovskys-heritage-in-literature-arts-and-philosophy-9781498597920","title":"Viktor Shklovskys Heritage in Literature Arts and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book aims to examine the heritage of Victor Shklovsky in a variety of disciplines. To achieve this end, we drew upon colleagues from eight different countries across the world  USA, Canada, Russia, England, Scotland, the Netherlands, Norway, and Hong Kong  in order to bring the widest variety of points of view on the subject. But we also wanted this book to be more than just another collection of essays of literary criticism: we invited scholars from different disciplines  literature, cinematography, and philosophy  who have dealt with Shklovsky's heritage and saw its practical application in their fields. Therefore, all these essays are written in a variety of humanist academic and scholarly styles, all engaging and dynamic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEngaging, uneven, and seminal - very much reflecting the spirit of Shklovsky's own work - , this wide-ranging collection revisits some of his key ideas and tests their relevance today. -- Galin Tihanov, George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London\u003cbr\u003eOf all the Petrograd Formalists, Viktor Shklovsky wrote the most brashly, loved the most lyrically, coped most pragmatically with the horrors of his era, and lived the longest. As critic, creative writer and closet lay philosopher, Shklovsky was—as one contributor to this volume puts it—always a public figure in history but careful “to avoid being one with it.” It took hard work to survive. To make a living, Shklovsky edited banned film scripts to get them past the censor and ghostwrote books for less gifted colleagues. As he confessed to his Italian interviewer Serena Vitale near the end of his life, there were only two things he never wrote: poetry, and denunciations.   This wide-ranging volume celebrates Shklovsky’s legacy in thing theory, feminist formalism, defamiliarization in film, the limits of the translatable, and provides newly-sensitized readings of world literature from Cervantes through Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll, Pynchon and Borges. A fine tribute to Soviet Russia’s most cosmopolitan monolingual critic. -- Caryl Emerson, Princeton University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction Irina Evdokimova   Part I: Shklovsky’s Heritage in Literature  Chapter 1: Thinking in Images, Differently: Shklovsky, Yakubinsky, and the Power of Evidence Michael Eskin  Chapter 2:  The Odyssey of Viktor Shklovsky: Life after Formalism Basil Lvoff  Chapter 3: The Eternal Wonderer, or Who was Viktor Shklovsky? Slav N. Gratchev  Chapter 4: Defamiliarization in translating Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland. Victor Fet and Michael Everson Chapter 5: Viktor Shklovsky on Narrative David Gorman  Chapter 6: Defamiliarization and Genre: Semiotic Subversions in The Crying of Lot 49 and “Death and the Compass.” Melissa Garr  Chapter 7: Shklovsky and Things, or Why Tolstoy’s Sofa should matter. Sergei Oushakine  Chapter 8: The Motherland will Notice her Terrible Mistake:* Paradox of Futurism in Jasienski, Mayakovsky and Shklovsky Norbert Francis  Chapter 9: Framing and Threading Non-Literary Discourse into the Structure of Cervantes´s Don Quixote II Rachel Schmidt  Chapter 10: Shklovsky and World Literature.  Grant Hamilton  Chapter 11: Racism and Robots: Defamiliarizing Social Justice in Rosa Montero’s Tears in the Rain and the 21st Century. Steven Mills   Part II: Shklovsky’s Heritage in Arts Chapter 12: Shklovsky’s Dog and Mulvey’s Pleasure:  The Secret Life of Defamiliarization. Eric Naiman  Chapter 13: Reading Viktor Shklovsky’s “Arts as Technique” in the Context of Early Cinema. Annie Van den Oever   Part III: Shklovsky’s Heritage in Philosophy  Chapter 14: Philosophical work of Russian formalism  Alexander Markov  Chapter 15: Shklovsky as a Technique: Literary Theory and the Biographical Strategies of a Soviet Intellectual Ilya Kalinin  Chapter 16: From a New Seeing to a New Acting: Viktor Shklovsky's Ostranenie and Analyses of Games and Play. Holger Pötzsch","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040875512151,"sku":"9781498597920","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498597920.jpg?v=1750948145","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/viktor-shklovskys-heritage-in-literature-arts-and-philosophy-9781498597920","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}