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This unique book examines the heritage and enduring relevance of Viktor Shklovsky's work from a wide range of international perspectives. The essays articulate Shklovsky's impact through various lenses including literature, literary theory, film, art theory, and philosophy from the early-1920s to the mid-1970s.
List of contents
Introduction
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
About the author
Edited by Slav N. Gratchev and Howard Mancing - Introduction by Irina Evdokimova - Contributions by Michael Eskin; Michael Everson; Victor Fet; Norbert Francis; Melissa Garr; David Gorman; Slav N. Gratchev; Grant Hamilton; Ilya Kalinin; Basil Lvoff; Alexa
Summary
This unique book examines the heritage and enduring relevance of Viktor Shklovsky's work from a wide range of international perspectives. The essays articulate Shklovsky's impact through various lenses including literature, literary theory, film, art theory, and philosophy from the early-1920s to the mid-1970s.
