Question

This author compares the evolution of certain genres to the “change in function” of the tolstovka jacket in the essay “Monument to a Scientific Error.” An essay by this author compares the quotes “Hey, you with the hat, you dropped a package!” and “Hey, clean up your act, you crumpled hat!” That essay by this author cites Boccaccio phrases like “the catching of the nightingale” and a Hamsun line about “two white miracles” in its examination of imagery in “erotic art.” An essay by this author begins by critiquing the idea that (*) “Art is thinking in images.” (-5[1])This author quotes the internal monologue of a horse named Strider, from Tolstoy’s “Kholstomer,” in (10[1])examining a technique in which an object is described (10[1])“as (-5[1])if it were perceived for the first time.” (10[1]-5[1])This author wrote the book Theory of Prose. For 10 points, name this Russian formalist critic whose essay (-5[1])“Art as Device” theorizes ostranenie (10[1])(“uh-struh-NEN-yuh”), or “defamiliarization.” ■END■ (10[3]0[2])

ANSWER: Viktor Shklovsky [or Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky] (“Monument to a Scientific Error” marked Shklovsky’s turn away from pure formalism.)
<Itamar Naveh-Benjamin, European Literature>
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