Theory of Prose

Name: Theory of Prose
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ISBN: 9780916583644

ISBN-10: 0916583643

ISBN-13: 9780916583644

Edition: 1991

Authors: Victor Shklovsky, Benjamin Sher, Gerald Burns

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Viktor Shklovsky's 1925 book Theory of Prose might have become the most important work of literary criticism in the twentieth century had not two obstacles barred its way: the crackdown by Soviet dictatorship on Shklovsky and other Russian Formalists in the 1930s, and the unavailability of an English translation. Now translated in its entirety for the first time, Theory of Prose not only anticipates structuralism and post-structuralism, but poses questions about the nature of fiction that are as provocative today as they were in the 1920s. Arguing that writers structure their materials according to artistic principles rather than from attempts to imitate "reality," Shklovsky uses…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date: 2/1/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792