Poiesis as a Decision-Making: Shklovsky, Tynianov, Bakhtin
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Decision theory, Interactive rationality, Shklovsky, Tynianov, BakhtinAbstract
Decision science is a relatively new discipline: the product of a cross-pollination among mathematics, psychology, economy and a few other branches of knowledge. It studies how humans make their choices and purports to provide a “rational framework for choosing between alternative courses of action when the consequences resulting from this choice are imperfectly known.” My paper deals with the theories of Viktor Shklovsky and Iurii Tynianov outlining how these two members of the Petersburg “Society for the Study of Poetic Language”(OPOIAZ) conceived of the writer as a rational agent pursuing a specific goal, and of the means at his/her disposal to attain it. To conclude, I will juxtapose the Formalists’ conceptualization of poetic creativity to Mikhail Bakhtin’s view on the subject arguing that the way he conceives of the strategies available to the literary author fit the label of “interactive rationality.”
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