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Estrangement and the Somatics of Literature: Tolstoy, Shklovsky, Brecht Hardback - 2008

by Douglas Robinson

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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.

This book begins with two assumptions, both taken from Tolstoy's late aesthetic treatise What Is Art? (1898): that there is a malaise in culture, and that literature's power to "infect" readers with the moral values of the author is a possible cure for this malaise. Exploring these ideas of estrangement within the contexts of earlier, contemporary, and later critical theory, Robinson argues that Shklovsky and Brecht follow Tolstoy in their efforts to fight depersonalization by imbuing readers with the transformative guidance of collectivized feeling. Robinson's somatic approach to literature offers a powerful alternative to depersonalizing structuralist and poststructuralist theorization without simply retreating into conservative rejection and reaction.

Both a comparative study of Russian and German literary-theoretical history and an insightful examination of the somatics of literature, this groundbreaking 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.

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  • Title Estrangement and the Somatics of Literature: Tolstoy, Shklovsky, Brecht
  • Author Douglas Robinson
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 344
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publication date 2008-03
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780801887963 / 0801887968
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.27 x 6.28 x 0.95 in (23.55 x 15.95 x 2.41 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Alienation (Social psychology) in literature, Brecht, Bertolt - Criticism and
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007033705
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809.933

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2008, Page 293

About the author

Douglas Robinson is a professor of English at the University of Mississippi.

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