Selected Essays | Jennifer Wilson on Viktor Shklovsky

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On this episode of “Selected Essays,” Jess and Zach talk with Jennifer Wilson about
her New York Times Book Review essay, “The Love Letters That Spoke of Everything but Love,” and Viktor Shklovsky’s “Art as Device,” first published in 1917.
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1. Selected Essays | Jennifer Wilson on Viktor Shklovsky (00:00:00)

2. Who is Viktor Shklovsky, and why “Art as Device”? (00:01:26)

3. Pugnacious literary criticism (00:05:53)

4. Defamiliarization in art and literature (00:11:48)

5. The second passage: defamiliarization and Tolstoy (00:16:24)

6. Art and the attention economy (00:20:38)

7. Defamiliarization and romance in “Zoo” (00:26:30)

8. Uncertainty and the task of the critic (00:32:44)