Category Archives for Shklovsky
Art as a Technique
If there is something that we as human beings in the 21st century have experienced in our lives that is without a doubt automatization. After riding the same bus for months, walking the same streets, dusting the same divan and saying the same “good morning”, situations, words, objects and even their concepts start to become […]
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Bakhtin & Shklovsky
Bakhtin is proposing that the novel is the perfect “environment” for discourse, in its multiple forms, to be manifested but not only manifested singularly or intertwined, but to be made fun of, as in a spectacle; the overturning of values that express more due to these forms than just what the content may develop. The … Continue reading » Continue reading
Shklovsky and Bakhtin
Art as Tecnique. Viktor Shklovsky The main issue that Shklovsky wants to develop is about what art means. But, his starting point is the problem of perception. The author says that in some moment we start to not be surprised … Continue reading → Continue reading
Bakhtin and Shklovsky
“Language…shot through with intentions and accents.” Bakhtin asserts context is the key to language, for every word is inseparable from the context it was first used in, the context of its first reading and every reading after that ad infinitum. … Continue reading → Continue reading
Viktor Shklovsky: The Power of Art
Viktor Shklovsky’s Art as Technique was an extremely interesting read. Shklovsky points out that what we perceive on a daily basis often becomes habitual and thus, becomes automatic. In fact, “life is reckoned as nothing” (16) because we perceive everything … Continue reading → Continue reading
Impressions on ”Art as Technique” by Shklovky
To the general public, art is often associated with the concept of beauty. A good artist has to create beautiful pieces ; the standards of beauty being generally agreed upon by a given society. In Art as Technique Shklovsky argues that … Continue reading → Continue reading
Art as Technique–one essential argument of Formalism
Shklovsky, one of the founders of the Formalist study group, believes the nature of literature is their form, which comprises all literary devices and techniques, artistic materials and defamilization of forms are the essential characteristics of literature. Influenced by new … Continue reading → Continue reading
