This book aims to examine the heritage of Victor Shklovsky in a variety of disciplines. To achieve this end, we drew upon colleagues from eight different countries across the world - USA, Canada, Russia, England, Scotland, the Netherlands, Norway, and Hong Kong - in order to bring the widest variety of points of view on the subject. But we also wanted this book to be more than just another collection of essays of literary criticism: we invited scholars from different disciplines - literature, cinematography, and philosophy - who have dealt with Shklovsky's heritage and saw its practical application in their fields. Therefore, all these essays are written in a variety of humanist academic and scholarly styles, all engaging and dynamic.
Introduction Irina Evdokimova Part I: Shklovsky's Heritage in Literature Chapter 1: Thinking in Images, Differently: Shklovsky, Yakubinsky, and the Power of Evidence Michael Eskin Chapter 2: The Odyssey of Viktor Shklovsky: Life after Formalism Basil Lvoff Chapter 3: The Eternal Wonderer, or Who was Viktor Shklovsky? Slav N. Gratchev Chapter 4: Defamiliarization in translating Lewis Carroll's Wonderland. Victor Fet and Michael Everson Chapter 5: Viktor Shklovsky on Narrative David Gorman Chapter 6: Defamiliarization and Genre: Semiotic Subversions in The Crying of Lot 49 and "Death and the Compass." Melissa Garr Chapter 7: Shklovsky and Things, or Why Tolstoy's Sofa should matter. Sergei Oushakine Chapter 8: The Motherland will Notice her Terrible Mistake:* Paradox of Futurism in Jasienski, Mayakovsky and Shklovsky Norbert Francis Chapter 9: Framing and Threading Non-Literary Discourse into the Structure of Cervantess Don Quixote II Rachel Schmidt Chapter 10: Shklovsky and World Literature. Grant Hamilton Chapter 11: Racism and Robots: Defamiliarizing Social Justice in Rosa Montero's Tears in the Rain and the 21st Century. Steven Mills Part II: Shklovsky's Heritage in Arts Chapter 12: Shklovsky's Dog and Mulvey's Pleasure: The Secret Life of Defamiliarization. Eric Naiman Chapter 13: Reading Viktor Shklovsky's "Arts as Technique" in the Context of Early Cinema. Annie Van den Oever Part III: Shklovsky's Heritage in Philosophy Chapter 14: Philosophical work of Russian formalism Alexander Markov Chapter 15: Shklovsky as a Technique: Literary Theory and the Biographical Strategies of a Soviet Intellectual Ilya Kalinin Chapter 16: From a New Seeing to a New Acting: Viktor Shklovsky's Ostranenie and Analyses of Games and Play. Holger Poetzsch
