Topologisk poetik i Viktor Šklovskijs Prosateorien

Forfattere

  • Sofie Kluge Syddansk Universitet

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/kok.v45i123.96829

Nøgleord:

automatisering, fremmedgørelse, litteraritet, konventionalitet, formalisme, litteraturfilosofi, greb, revitalisering

Resumé

Though not explicitly addressed as such, the literary topos plays a crucial role in Russian literary theorist Victor Shklovsky’s Theory of Prose (1925). On the backdrop of a critical discussion of the ‘symbolist’ conception of literature and of the ‘ethnographical school’s’ exploration of literary motifs, Shklovsky here presents what can be understood as a genuine topological poetics: A poetics bent on the ‘formulaic’ as quintessential literary device. Rather than a figuration of the author’s ideas literary images are, according to Shklovsky, conventional formulas that circulate in language. Rather than collective commemorations of original customs literary motifs exhibit literature’s revitalization of ‘automatized’ language. Thus redefined as topoi in this most basic sense – as commonplaces or repetitions of existing forms – literary images and motifs become key to understanding ‘literariness’ itself as a redeeming ‘estrangement’ of dead language forms and to conceptualizing literary history as a chain of successive estrangements. Qualifying the topos as self-referential, estranging device, Theory of Prose thus presents an original if also thought-provoking contribution to topology. However, it ultimately rest on a today questionable literary philosophical premise: The idea of literature as a privileged discursive space where the lost ideality of the life-world is recreated.

Forfatterbiografi

Sofie Kluge, Syddansk Universitet

Sofie Kluge, dr. phil. og lektor i litteraturvidenskab, Institut for Kulturvidenskaber, SDU. Forfatter til bøger og forskningsartikler om, primært, den europæiske 1500 og 1600-talslitteratur og dennes reception. Aktuel med Honest Entertainment, Transcendental Jest. Six Essays on Don Quijote and Novelistic Theory (Kassel 2016).

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2017-08-28

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Kluge, S. (2017). Topologisk poetik i Viktor Šklovskijs Prosateorien. K&K - Kultur Og Klasse, 45(123), 55–68. https://doi.org/10.7146/kok.v45i123.96829

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