Category Archives for Shklovsky
Twentieth Century, Formalists and Tolstoy
First, I find quite interesting that most of the readings for this week were written at the beginning of the 20th century. I know during those days many different events took place in the world, but I just reckon that … Continue reading → Continue reading
The science of literary/linguistic studies
It surprised me how frequently we talk about science or scientific approaches when dealing with literary and linguistic studies in the pages we read this week. From Russian Formalists who were initially inspired by philosophers of science like Edmund Husserl (3), to the French Structuralists who were greatly influenced by the studies of Ferdinand de […]
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Shklovsky’s “Art as Technique”
Shklovsky’s “Art as Technique” presents two very important ideas; the ideas of habituation and defamiliarization. According to Shklovsky, habituation is …
It Takes All Kinds of Kinds?
Hello everyone, I like the way we’ve been introduced to the world of literary and cultural theory with this first round of readings. The one notion that I find myself thinking about most after completing the readings is one that … Continue reading → Continue reading
The Beauty and the Form
In Art as Technique, Viktor Shklovsky asserts that when perception becomes habitual, then everything becomes meaningless: “Habitualization devours work, clothes, furniture, one’s wife, and the fear of war” (16). So, he argued, Art is a way of breaking that state … Continue reading → Continue reading
Shklovsky
In Viktor Shklovsky’s view, art resists and overturns the deadening effects of habituation. As our “perception becomes habitual,” he argues, “all of our habits retreat into the area of the unconsciously automatic” and as a result “we apprehend objects only … Continue reading →
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