Nadia Gribkova (MA 2023) posts “Why WEIRD Is GOOD | ft. Tolstoy, Shklovsky, my mom” as part of her series Museum Fatigue
Introduction
Why WEIRD Is GOOD | ft. Tolstoy, Shklovsky, my mom
An introduction to Viktor Shklovsky's defamiliarization theory with examples from Tolstoy's War and Peace, and an unsolicited input from my mother, an engineer and a self-described "math person," who is not buying any of this nonsense. CHAPTERS 0:00 Tolstoy does Housekeeping 1:42 Shklovsky's Estrangement 4:39 Ostranenie 5:06 Mother chimes in 6:38 War and Peace, Natasha 10:14 War and Peace, Pierre 17:02 Estrangement in visual art 19:20 A quick summary 20:19 Mother gets the last word