...Wallace Martin Estrangement and the Somatics of Literature: Tolstoy, Shklovsky, Brecht. By Douglas Robinson. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xx, 317 p. University of Oregon 2010 BOOK REVIEWS ESTRANGEMENT AND...

...Christopher Pye A Politics of the Scene. By Paul A. Kottman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. 272 p. University of Oregon 2010 BOOK REVIEWS ESTRANGEMENT AND THE SOMATICS OF LITERATURE: TOLSTOY, SHKLOVSKY, BRECHT. By...

... BOOK REVIEWS ESTRANGEMENT AND THE SOMATICS OF LITERATURE: TOLSTOY, SHKLOVSKY, BRECHT. By Douglas Robinson. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xx, 317 p. Innovations in criticism evoke a predictable sequence of responses. After the fi rst fl urry of interest, their...

...: TOLSTOY, SHKLOVSKY, BRECHT. By Douglas Robinson. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xx, 317 p. Innovations in criticism evoke a predictable sequence of responses. After the fi rst fl urry of interest, their limitations and mistakes attract attention. This is followed by grudging...

... ESTRANGEMENT AND THE SOMATICS OF LITERATURE: TOLSTOY, SHKLOVSKY, BRECHT. By Douglas Robinson. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xx, 317 p. Innovations in criticism evoke a predictable sequence of responses. After the fi rst fl urry of interest, their limitations and mistakes attract...

...” Viktor Shklovsky places examples of poetic interlinguality taken from classical and medieval literary texts side by side with stylistic intricacies gleaned from more recent poems by Pushkin and Khlebnikov in order to show that a wilfully tortuous and difficult poetic speech inevitably accompanies...

... Portability is central to Caroline Levine’s concept of “affordance,” which offers an essential supplement and update to Shklovsky’s device (see Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network ). Borrowing from design theory, Levine defines “affordance” as “the potential uses or actions latent in materials and...

... Ugresˇic´ is far from the only twentieth-century author to have used it; indeed, her book frequently gives the nod to such artists as Shklovsky, Kabakov, Nabokov, Brodsky, and Vaginov, who organized their own works in a similar way. The question is: why should the subject-positions of incipient colonial...

... and bad art—lies in the work’s effect on a reader in a specific place and time, not in any intrinsic quality of the work itself. In Viktor Shklovsky’s famous formulation, the effective writer uses words in a way that returns “sensation to our limbs,” that makes “a stone feel stony” (6; in Rus...

... that the barber’s brothers all belong to his. Western literary criticism, through Viktor Shklovsky’s essay on “Art as Device,” has recognized estrangement as aesthetic distance. As Thomas G. Pavel puts it in Fictional Worlds , such strangeness works to put an event “into a certain kind of perspective...

... argues, preserves the awkwardness of “Stanadayini” ( 182 ), which (to use Viktor Shklovsky’s term [see “Art as Device” ]) defamiliarizes the otherwise unnoticed, unquestioned everyday practices of the prevailing linguistic and socioeconomic order. In cybernetic terms, the effect of rhetorical...

... editorial market and in the novels’ peculiar status as merchandise. But let me address one question at a time. As Viktor Shklovsky suggested, artistic invention is nothing other than the fruit of a slippage, of an accidental change. In literary texts, the new accumulates upon the old quantitatively...

...-Pearce 81 -97. Selden, Raman, and Peter Widdowson. A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory . 3rd ed. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1997 . Shklovsky, Victor. “Art as Technique” and “Sterne's Tristram Shandy: Stylistic Commentary.” Lemon and Reis 3 -24 and 25-57. Soyinka, Wole...

... Chulkov’s fic- tion, see Garrard, Mikhail Cˇulkov  93–94; Garrard, “The Russian Scarron”; Shklovsky, Chulkov and Levshin  109–110; Stepanov, “About the Author” 19; Striedter, Der Schelmenroman, ss. 71–72. 4 According to V.V. Sipovskii, the Russian translation of Charlotte Summers  was based on the...

... possible justification for reading lit- erature to the three categories of theories (exemplary, affective, and cognitive) already extant. This summary of literary theory, sorting writers and thinkers from Shklovsky and Sontag to Heidegger and Sartre according to their justifications for reading...

.... Shklovsky, V.B. “ Tristram Shandy Sterna i teoriia romana” [“Sterne's Tristram Shandy and the Theory of the Novel”]. Petrograd: n.p., 1921 . Silverman, Kaja. “The Lacanian Phallus.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 4.1 ( 1992 ): 84 –116. Slapšak, Svetlana. “The After-War War...

... example, Vladislav Khodasevich, Ivan Bunin, Vladimir Nabokov, Viktor Shklovsky, and Ilya Ehrenburg) that dealt directly with the relationship between the abandoned homeland and adopted cities and helped create a literary culture that continues to inform contemporary Russian-Jewish- American...

...: Grijalbo, 1987 . Servius. In Vergili carmina commentarii . 5 vols. Lancaster, PA: Societatis Philologicae Americanae cura et impensis, 1946 . Shelden, Michael. Friends of Promise. Cyril Connolly and the World of Horizon . New York: Harper & Row, 1989 . Shklovsky, Victor. “Sterne's...