• Defamiliarization or ostranenie (Russian: остранение, IPA: [ɐstrɐˈnʲenʲɪjə]) is the artistic technique of presenting to audiences common things in an...
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    and Reis's 1965 English translation of Shklovsky's 1917 coinage as "defamiliarization", combined with John Willett's 1964 translation of Brecht's 1935 coinage...
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  • sought in a theatre presentation. Bertolt Brecht coined the term "defamiliarization effect" (sometimes called "estrangement effect" or "alienation effect";...
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  • Bad". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2017-11-14. "Literature Glossary – Defamiliarization". shmoop.com. Retrieved 2017-11-14. Victor Shklovsky, "Sterne's Tristram...
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    It arose separately from West European symbolism, and emphasized defamiliarization and the mysticism of Sophiology. Influences The Russian symbolism...
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    Beatrice the Sixteenth has been described as a successful example of defamiliarization, as it presents a world initially devoid of gender markers, challenging...
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    qualities. According to Viktor Shklovsky, Gogol used the technique of defamiliarization, whereby a writer presents common things in an unfamiliar or strange...
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  • known as the Mooreeffoc effect, refers to what stylisticians call "defamiliarization". G. K. Chesterton used the phrase in his 1906 book Charles Dickens:...
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    one, this is in large part because it defamiliarizes Spielberg, makes him strange. Yet it also defamiliarizes Kubrick, with equally ambiguous results...
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  • concepts: defamiliarization (ostraneniye, more literally, 'estrangement') and the plot/story distinction (syuzhet/fabula). "Defamiliarization" is one of...
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    anti-academic bias despite the use of formal methodologies, such as defamiliarization. This contradiction exists in many subcultures, especially those dependent...
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    Peleg denies him" previously in chapter 18. In her journal article "'Defamiliarization' and the Ideology of Race in 'Moby Dick'", Martha Vick states that...
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  • Shklovsky insisted that not all artistic texts defamiliarize language, and that some of them achieve defamiliarization (ostranenie) by manipulating composition...
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    It may use Brechtian alienation strategies to jar us, in order to "defamiliarize" what we are seeing and how we are seeing it. Performative documentaries...
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  • to Laura Palmer's parallel lives, the series blends nostalgia and defamiliarization. Lash concludes that The Return achieves a paradoxical fidelity to...
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  • generated by the Russian Formalists, particularly their notion of Defamiliarization ('ostranenie'). Especially the 1917 essay 'Art as Technique' (Iskusstvo...
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  • encompasses the terms "myth/legend", "fantastic/supplementation", "defamiliarization", "mysticism/magic", "meta-narration", "open-ended/expansive romanticism"...
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    deconstructing traditional architectural forms and embracing ideas of flow and defamiliarization, akin to Viktor Shklovsky’s concept of “laying bare the device.” Critics...
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    considered in two parts - the ball and the flogging. Tolstoy uses defamiliarization in each part to emphasize the importance of the ritual and social...
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    Yevgeni Lebedev. This story prominently features the technique of defamiliarization by adopting the perspective of a horse to expose some of the irrationalities...
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  • speculates that the novel's modern setting is "calculated to have a defamiliarizing effect. While this novel measures carefully the passing of time, its...
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  • Literature, University of Western Ontario Thesis The politics of defamiliarization in Blake's printed works (1994) Academic work Discipline English Institutions...
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    opportunity to raise awareness of the ideological reality of life (to “defamiliarize the familiar”), particularly the mundane material reality. Prince Serge...
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    formalist, Viktor Shklovsky, viewed the syuzhet as the fabula defamiliarized. Defamiliarization or "making strange," a term Shklovsky coined and popularized...
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  • process in relation to novel-writing, including concepts such as defamiliarization. Anaïs Nin (1968). The Novel of the Future. New York: Macmillan. Nin...
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  • may seek to transform the situations under study. It is a method of defamiliarization of common sense. Problematization is a critical thinking and pedagogical...
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  • Holofernes by Lucas Cranach the Elder, and wrote that Kiddo "represents defamiliarization and affirmation of women's entitlement to violence through the visualization...
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  • the Future". Doing Animal Studies with Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts: Defamiliarizing Human-Nonhuman Animal Relationships in Fiction. Bloomsbury Publishing...
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    principles was what he called the Verfremdungseffekt (translated as "defamiliarization effect", "distancing effect", or "estrangement effect", and often...
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  • they make children while befriending them. In "NieR (De)Automata: Defamiliarization and the Poetic Revolution of NieR: Automata" Grace Gerrish from Boston...
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