The fourth annual workshop of the Formalist Re-reading Group convened on September 23-24, 2022 to discuss Victor Shklovsky’s Bowstring. This event was organized by Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University), Sergei Oushakine (Princeton University) and the Harriman Institute.
Program
Day One: Friday, September 23
Presentation I
Julia Vaingurt: Granny’s Toque: Old Age Style, Shklovsky’s Retrofuturism, and the Contemporaneity of the Obsolete
Presentation II
Emily Van Buskirk: Grandma’s Red Hat: Memoir and Theory in Shklovsky’s Tetiva
Presentation III
Ilya Kalinin: Ландшафты Прошедшего Времени: Закон Обратной Перспективы
Presentation IV
Bradley Gorski: Who Pulls the Bowstring? Attention and Postfiction
Presentation V
Lidia Tripiccione: How to be an Author: Tetiva and the Technologies of Reading
Presentation VI
Lilya Kaganovsky: “Filmed as though in Slow Motion and Examined Through the Magnifying Glass of Time”: Shklovsky Between Past, Present, and Future
Event Video (Day One)
Day Two: Saturday, September 24
Presentation I
Michael Kunichika: Morphologies of Muteness: Shklovsky and the Unspeakable
Presentation II
Kirill Ospovat: Compassion and (Social) Form: Narrative Silence and the Voice of the Subaltern
Presentation III
Ilya Kukulin: Morphologization and Psychologization in a Secret Circuit: Late Viktor Shklovsky and E.H. Combrich
Presentation IV
Jessica Merrill: Major Verein or Captain Hatteras? Shklovsky on Perception, Repetition, and Literary Form in Bowstring
Presentation V
Oksana Bulgakova: Как Вернуть Мяч в Игру, или Антониони (не) по Шкловскому
Presentation VI
Zdenko Mandusic: Reinvented Forms: Viewing Thaw Cinema through Shklovsky’s Bowstring
