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.” This author quotes the internal monologue of a horse named Strider, from Tolstoy’s “Kholstomer,” in examining a technique in which an object is described “as if it were perceived for the first time.” This author wrote the book Theory of Prose. For 10 points, name this Russian formalist critic whose essay “Art as Device” theorizes ostranenie (“uh-struh-NEN-yuh”), or “defamiliarization.” ■END■
ANSWER: Viktor Shklovsky [or Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky] (“Monument to a Scientific Error” marked Shklovsky’s turn away from pure formalism.)
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