An author who wrote in this language described the concept of “defamiliarization” in his essay “Art as Device.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this language used by a literary theorist who defined 31 narratemes. A literary theorist described the “dialogized self-consciousness” of a novella in this language that begins, “I am a sick man… I am a spiteful man.”
ANSWER: Russian [or Russkiy] (The literary theorists are Viktor Shklovsky and Mikhail Bakhtin writing on Dostoevsky’s novella Notes from Underground.)
[10h] This Soviet literary theorist defined figures like the hero, the donor, and the dispatcher among seven “spheres of action” in a “Morphology” of a certain literary form that was collected by Alexander Afanasyev.
ANSWER: Vladimir Propp
[10e] Propp’s “spheres of action” were developed through his studies of works in this literary form, which Alexander Afanasyev collected after being inspired by The Brothers Grimm.
ANSWER: fairy tales [or folk tales; or folklore; or skazka; accept Morphology of the Folktale]
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