{"product_id":"viktor-shklovsky-a-reader-paperback-1","title":"Viktor Shklovsky: A Reader - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eViktor Shklovsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlexandra Berlina\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eViktor Shklovsky (1893-1984) was both patriarch and \u003ci\u003eenfant terrible\u003c\/i\u003e of Formalism, a literary and film scholar, a fiction writer and the protagonist of other people's novels, instructor of an armored division and professor at the Art History Institute, revolutionary and counterrevolutionary. His work was deeply informed by his long and eventful life. He wrote for over seventy years, both as a very young man in the wake of the Russian revolution and as a ninety-year old, never tiring of analyzing the workings of literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eViktor Shklovsky: A Reader \u003c\/i\u003eis the first book that collects crucial writings from across Shklovsky's career, serving as an entry point for first-time readers. It presents new translations of key texts, interspersed with excerpts from memoirs and letters, as well as important work that has not appeared in English before.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eViktor Shklovsky\u003c\/b\u003e (1893-1984) was one of the foremost literary critics and theorists of the 20th century. One of the founders of the Formalist movement in literary criticism, his seminal works include \"Art as Method\" (1917), \u003ci\u003eTheory of Prose\u003c\/i\u003e (1925), \u003ci\u003eThird Factory\u003c\/i\u003e (1926), classic studies of Tolstoy and Mayakovsky, and a memoir of the Russian civil-war era, \u003ci\u003eA Sentimental Journey: Memoirs, 1917-1922\u003c\/i\u003e (1923). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlexandra Berlina\u003c\/b\u003e is Postdoctoral Researcher in Literary Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany. Her translations of Brodsky's poems \"Dido and Aeneas\" and \"You can't tell a gnat...\" have won awards from the 'Willis Barnstone Translation Prize' and the 'The Joseph Brodsky\/Stephen Spender Prize'. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eBrodsky Translating Brodsky\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2014).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47335618642169,"sku":"9781501310379","price":45.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/a2ExdElqQ2Vtam5mTnJhUTIvcDNZZz09_687b234a-ab96-4e0e-a49d-54718d0f9866.webp?v=1769663386","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/viktor-shklovsky-a-reader-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}