On Viktor Shklovsky’s Penchant for Forms

• Authors: Anna Maria Skibska

Title variants

PL

On Viktor Shklovsky’s Penchant for Forms

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

In the article, I have decided to sketch a brief portrait of the most significant Russian formalist Viktor Shklovsky. In order to comment upon his contribution to the development of literary theory, I cast some light on his original term ostranenie (estrangement, defamiliarization), which allows the formalist to expose the essential features of writing based on unlimited changes of the plot: they always assume a participation of irony, parody, and reinvention in art. The listed devices determine the progress in literature, which makes use of the old conventions to create new ones what occurs in the course of transgressing consolidated forms and functions. What is more, the process of transgression (or – to be more precise – self-transgression) is manifested by a disruptive activity of irony at the same time collaborating with literary traditions and thwarting them with the force of the eternal, perpetual reinvention.

Keywords

EN

ostranenie; irony; parody; reinvention; detail; digressive interpolation; ostranenie; irony; parody; reinvention; detail; digressive interpolation

PL

ostranenie; irony; parody; reinvention; detail; digressive interpolation

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 13

Dates

published

2018-01-29

Contributors

author

Anna Maria Skibska

• Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/pss.2017.13.1