Estrangement and the Somatics of Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Estrangement and the Somatics of Literature write by Douglas Robinson. This book was released on 2008-04-28. Estrangement and the Somatics of Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing together the estrangement theories of Viktor Shklovsky and Bertolt Brecht with Leo Tolstoy's theory of infection, Douglas Robinson studies the ways in which shared evaluative affect regulates both literary familiarity—convention and tradition—and modern strategies of alienation, depersonalization, and malaise. This book begins with two assumptions, both taken from Tolstoy's late aesthetic treatise What Is Art? (1898): that there is a malaise in culture, and that literature's power to "infect" readers with the moral values of the author is a possible cure for this malaise. Exploring these ideas of estrangement within the contexts of earlier, contemporary, and later critical theory, Robinson argues that Shklovsky and Brecht follow Tolstoy in their efforts to fight depersonalization by imbuing readers with the transformative guidance of collectivized feeling. Robinson's somatic approach to literature offers a powerful alternative to depersonalizing structuralist and poststructuralist theorization without simply retreating into conservative rejection and reaction. Both a comparative study of Russian and German literary-theoretical history and an insightful examination of the somatics of literature, this groundbreaking work provides a deeper understanding of how literature affects the reader and offers a new perspective on present-day problems in poststructuralist approaches to the human condition.
Ostrannenie
Ostrannenie - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ostrannenie write by Annie van den Oever. This book was released on 2010. Ostrannenie available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Summary: Defamiliarisation or ostrannenie, the artistic technique of forcing the audience to see common things in an unfamiliar or strange way, in order to enhance perception of the familiar, ihas become one of the central concept of modern artistic practice, ranging over movements including Dada, postmodernism, epic theatre, and science fiction, as well as our response to arts. Coined by the Soviet literary critic Victor Shklovskii in 1917, ostrannenie has come to resonate deeply in film studies, where it entered into dialogue with the French philosopher Derrida's concept of differance, bordering on 'differing' and 'deferring'. Striking, provocative and incisive, the essays of the distinguished film scholars in this volume recall the range and depth of a concept that since 1917 changed the trajectory of theoretical inquiry.
Ring Lardner and the Other
Ring Lardner and the Other - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ring Lardner and the Other write by Douglas Robinson. This book was released on 1992. Ring Lardner and the Other available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Not only examining the writings of a critically neglected American novelist of the early 20th century, this study also uses Ring Lardner both as the basis for a theoretical inquiry into language and literature, and as a study of men and masculinity at the turn of the century.
The Translator- Centered Multidisciplinary Construction
The Translator- Centered Multidisciplinary Construction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Translator- Centered Multidisciplinary Construction write by Lin Zhu. This book was released on 2012. The Translator- Centered Multidisciplinary Construction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book embraces the epistemological and methodological issues of theoretical construction in the field of Translation Studies from a historical and global perspective. The theoretical stances are explained in detail through a systemic inquiry into the constructive aspects of theoretical innovation of the American translation theorist Douglas Robinson. In order to renew and promote theoretical thinking in the field of Translation Studies, this book aims to reflect on existing theoretical problems in translation, trace the translation theorist's innovative and constructive ways of thinking about translation theory, and explore productive philosophical and theoretical resources of translation studies. This book will not only be helpful to a further and full understanding of Robinson's thoughts on translation, but also offers a rethinking of how to advance Translation Studies epistemologically and methodologically.
Thinking with Tolstoy and Wittgenstein
Thinking with Tolstoy and Wittgenstein - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thinking with Tolstoy and Wittgenstein write by Henry W. Pickford. This book was released on 2015-11-30. Thinking with Tolstoy and Wittgenstein available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this highly original interdisciplinary study incorporating close readings of literary texts and philosophical argumentation, Henry W. Pickford develops a theory of meaning and expression in art intended to counter the meaning skepticism most commonly associated with the theories of Jacques Derrida. Pickford arrives at his theory by drawing on the writings of Wittgenstein to develop and modify the insights of Tolstoy’s philosophy of art. Pickford shows how Tolstoy’s encounter with Schopenhauer’s thought on the one hand provided support for his ethical views but on the other hand presented a problem, exemplified in the case of music, for his aesthetic theory, a problem that Tolstoy did not successfully resolve. Wittgenstein’s critical appreciation of Tolstoy’s thinking, however, not only recovers its viability but also constructs a formidable position within contemporary debates concerning theories of emotion, ethics, and aesthetic expression.
