Estrangement and the Somatics of Literature: Tolstoy, Shklovsky, Brecht by Douglas Robinson

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

Douglas Robinson

317 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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This book begins with two assumptions, both taken from Tolstoy's late aesthetic treatise What Is Art? (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 cur...

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