{"product_id":"estrangement-and-the-somatics-of-douglas-robinson-9780801887963","title":"Estrangement and the Somatics of Literature: Tolstoy, Shklovsky, Brecht","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrawing together the estrangement theories of Viktor Shklovsky and Bertolt Brecht with Leo Tolstoy's theory of infection, Douglas Robinson studies the ways in which shared evaluative affect regulates both literary familiarity--convention and tradition--and modern strategies of alienation, depersonalization, and malaise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book begins with two assumptions, both taken from Tolstoy's late aesthetic treatise \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Art? \u003c\/i\u003e(1898): that there is a malaise in culture, and that literature's power to \"infect\" readers with the moral values of the author is a possible cure for this malaise. Exploring these ideas of estrangement within the contexts of earlier, contemporary, and later critical theory, Robinson argues that Shklovsky and Brecht follow Tolstoy in their efforts to fight depersonalization by imbuing readers with the transformative guidance of collectivized feeling. Robinson's somatic approach to literature offers a powerful alternative to depersonalizing structuralist and poststructuralist theorization without simply retreating into conservative rejection and reaction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth a comparative study of Russian and German literary-theoretical history and an insightful examination of the somatics of literature, this groundbreaking work provides a deeper understanding of how literature affects the reader and offers a new perspective on present-day problems in poststructuralist approaches to the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Douglas Robinson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801887968\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801887963\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.27h x 6.28w x 0.95d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2008 pg. 293","brand":"Douglas Robinson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48748343460095,"sku":"9780801887963","price":70.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/estrangement-and-the-somatics-of-douglas-robinson-9780801887963","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}