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Standstill as Extinction: Viktor Shklovsky's Poetics and Politics of Movement in the 1920s and 1930s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Anne Dwyer
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Abstract

In 1923 the Russian formalist theorist Viktor Shklovsky returned to the USSR after a year of exile. Tike his entire cohort of “fellow travelers,” he accommodated himself to the new Soviet regime. He did so in the language of travel and other kinds of movement. In the 1920s and 1930s, nomadism—a prominent motif in works by Shklovsky from A Sentimental Journey through Marco Polo—emerges as his central figure for accommodation to official culture. This association occurs through the submerged double meaning of his signature term ostranenie—at once defamiliarization and reterritorialization. This duality of ostranenie has implications for our broader understanding of the way mobility is active in cultural production and intertwined with structures of power. In the Soviet case, ostranenie underscores that nomadic movement is essential to the operation of cultural agents, whose relative freedom becomes a mechanism of state authority and control.

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PMLA , Volume 131 , Issue 2 , March 2016 , pp. 269 - 288
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2016

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