Turning Into Sterne - Viktor Shklovskii and Literary Reception

Informationen zum Autor Emily Finer Klappentext Viktor Shklovskii (1893-1984) is best known as an inventor of Russian Formalism! the literary theorist responsible for ostranenie! defamiliarisation. In [Finer's] own inventive readings, the impact of Sterne and English eighteenth-century narrative experiments is dominant in Shklovskii's journalism and fiction of the mid 1920s. The overt play with convention evident in his non- fiction, as in his novels, exemplifies in a double sense the khod konia - both the knight's move of artistic indirection and the hobby horse of Shandean digressions. -- Dale E. Peterson Slavonic and East European Review 89.4, October 2011, 720-21 Zusammenfassung This book addresses the questions raised by Viktor Shklovskii's paradoxical and allusive statement through an exploration of the circumstances and consequences of his interaction with Laurence Sterne and his novels, proposing a range of models for literary reception. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The Background to Shklovskii's Reception of Foreign Literature 2. Shklovskii's Reception of the Eighteenth-Century English Novel: Theory 3. Shklovskii Reads Tristram Shandy 4. Literary Reception in Practice 5. Literary History 6. Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Emily Finer, Finer Emily
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.05.2010
• EAN: 9781906540555
• ISBN: 978-1-906540-55-5
• No. of pages: 172
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, Literary studies: general