Beyond language : Viktor Shklovsky, estrangement, and the search for meaning in art
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The key concept of Viktor Shklovsky's (1893-1984) understanding of literature is estrangement, a literary device the twofold purpose of which is to make a text strange and to restore one's perception of life. While previous scholarship has focused on the first of these purposes, this dissertation focuses on the second. Shklovsky, far from arguing for a vision of literature in which the meaning of a text is either nonexistent or located strictly in its language or formal features, in fact puts forth a theory of creativity as an existential enterprise, intimately connected with and even inseparable from deep human experiences such as alienation, love, transcendence, and the search for meaning. These experiences may be invoked or self-consciously created by language employed in specific, formally complex ways, but they can never finally be reduced to language. Particular attention is given to the way in which Shklovsky develops these ideas by engaging with the work of Roman Jakobson (1896-1982), Lev Tolstoy (1828-1910), and Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930).
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Bartling, Scott | |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. | |
| Primary advisor | Safran, Gabriella, 1967- | |
| Thesis advisor | Safran, Gabriella, 1967- | |
| Thesis advisor | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich | |
| Thesis advisor | Kunanbaeva, Alma | |
| Advisor | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich | |
| Advisor | Kunanbaeva, Alma |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Scott Bartling. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Scott William Rowan Bartling
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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