Estrangement and the Somatics of Literature: Tolstoy, Shklovsky, Brecht

Contents

Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix o n e Zarazhenie: Tolstoy’s Infection Theory 1 Tolstoy’s Infection 3 The Disease 5 The Cure 13 Damasio’s Somatic Theory 19 2 Tolstoy’s Estrangement 34 Estrangement Of/From 34 Tolstoy’s Depersonalization 41 Disinfecting the Infection Theory 62 t w o Ostranenie: Shklovsky’s Estrangement Theory 3 Shklovsky’s Modernist Poetics 79 The Capacity to Flow 82 The Four Things 89 Restoring Sensation to Life 95 Deautomatization 112 4 Shklovsky’s Hegelianism 133 Alienation 136 Work 140 Romantic Form 153 Alienated Labor 159 t h r e e Verfremdung: Brecht’s Estrangement Theory 5 Brecht’s Modernist Marxism 167 Shklovskyan Ostranenie and the Politicization of Formalism 169 The German Tradition and the Alienation of Alienation 178 Chinese Acting and the Spatiotemporal Dialectic of Estrangement 196 Practical Work in the Theater: Empathy and Estrangement 205 Brecht’s Infection Theory 218 Contents Gestic Transformation 235 Conclusion: The Somatics of Literature 251 Notes 259 Works Cited 293 Index 309 Contents ...