Food for Thought and Scientific Food Rationing: Viktor Shklovsky’s Case Against Censorship

This article is part of a larger project financed within the POLONEZ 3 programme by the National Science Centre, Poland. Agreement No UMO-2016/23/P/HS2/04129. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 665778. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 665778.

My contribution to a 2019 collection Modernism and Food Studies, “From Food for Thought to Scientific Food Rationing: Viktor Shklovsky’s Case against Censorship,” explores Formalist theories of the transformative effects of literature on cognition. It examines how these effects are disrupted by censorship, the impacts of which are compared to the impact of agricultural modernization, depleting the resilience of traditional agrarian communities.