Estrangement and the somatics of literature
Subtitle: Tolstoy, Shklovsky, Brecht
By: Douglas Robinson.
Series: Parallax
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780801887963
Subjects: Tolstoy, Leo, -- graf, -- 1828-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation; Shklovskiĭ, Viktor Borisovich, -- 1893-1984 -- Criticism and interpretation; Brecht, Bertolt, -- 1898-1956 -- Criticism and interpretation; Alienation (Social psychology) in literature; Criticism -- Russia (Federation) -- History; Criticism -- Germany -- History
Description: "Drawing together the estrangement theories of Viktor Shklovsky and Bertolt Brecht with Leo Tolstoy's theory of infection, Douglas Robinson studies the ways in which shared evaluative affect regulates both literary familiarity-convention and tradition-and modern strategies of alienation, depersonalization, and malaise." "Both a comparative study of Russian and German literary-theoretical history and an examination of the somatics of literature, this work provides a deeper understanding of how literature affects the reader and offers a new perspective on present-day problems in poststructuralist approaches to the human condition."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-308) and index.
Table of contents: title: Zarazhenie : Tolstoy's infection theory; title: Ostranenie : Shklovsky's estrangement theory; title: Verfremdung : Brecht's estrangement theory.