Defamiliarization What is it? Defamiliarization is the artistic technique of forcing the audience to see common things in an unfamiliar or strange way‚ in order to enhance perception of the familiar. According to Viktor Shklovsky‚ a Russian writer who coined the term ‘Defamiliarization’‚ “The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects‚ unfamiliar‟‚ to make forms difficult‚ to increase the difficulty
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* In 1916 he founded the OPOYAZ‚ one of the two groups‚ with the Moscow Linguistic Circle‚ which developed the critical theories and techniques of Russian Formalism. * He is best known for developing the concept of “ostranenie” or “defamiliarization” in literature. He explained the concept in the important essay "Art as Technique" (also translated as "Art as Device"). Art as Technique: * “as perception becomes habitual‚ it becomes automatic”; „things are replaced by symbols” Art
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Miall‚ University of Alberta‚ Canada Abstract Commentators have spoken of the moment of sublime experience as one of amazement‚ of being overwhelmed by the strikingness of the sublime appearance. The sublime‚ in other words‚ is an effect of defamiliarization. If a poet is to embody the sublime experience in language (i.e.‚ in the poetic sublime)‚ we would expect the resources of linguistic foregrounding to be central to this effort. The defamiliarizing moment is‚ of course‚ central to the modern
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the story as Harry lays on his cot watching the vultures outside loom. Harry sees these birds as a sign of his impending death‚ pointing them out to his wife saying‚ “I’m dying now. Ask those bastards.” (Hemingway) This is the first sign of defamiliarization as Hemingway takes a commonly well known bird that is being attracted to the rotting sight or smell of Harry’s gangrene leg and uses it as a tool change the reader’s perception of the bird from a scavenger to a messenger of death.
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recall who coined this name‚ but it was not a very felicitous coinage. It might have been convenient as a simplified battle cry but it fails‚ as an objective term‚ to delimit the activities of the "Society for the Study of Poetic Language." *Defamiliarization: A term used by the Russian Formalist Viktor Shklovsky to describe the capacity of art to counter the deadening effect of habit and convention by investing the familiar with strangeness and thereby
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consolidation of Stalin’s dictatorship around 1929‚ Formalism was silenced as a heresy in the Soviet Union‚ and its centre of research migrated to Prague in the 1930s. Along with ’literariness’‚ the most important concept of the school was that of defamiliarization: instead of seeing literature as a ’reflection’ of the world‚ Victor Shklovsky and his Formalist followers saw it as a linguistic dislocation. or a ’making strange’. In the period of Czech Formalism. Jan Mukarovsky further refined this notion
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to teach a lesson‚ ultimately showed the importance of actions being more important than simply thoughts of good actions. Also‚ as I was reading‚ I connected discussions from class to topics discussed in the book‚ such as the sense of agency‚ defamiliarization‚ and the idea that novels should not be based upon lessons due to them pushing the reader away instead of encouraging them to read. This novel urged readers to use their own imagination and form their own opinions that the author
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The current movement of absurdism‚ however‚ emerged in France after World War II‚ as a rebellion against the traditional values and beliefs of Western culture and literature. It began with the existentialist writers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus and eventually included other writers such as Eugene Ionesco‚ James Joyce‚ Samuel Beckett‚ Jean Genet‚ Edward Albee‚ and Harold Pinter‚ to name a few. Its rules are fairly simple: 1.) There is often no real story line; instead there is a series of
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A Brief Introduction to Russian Formalism Zhu Gang In the heyday of high modernism emerged a group of college students and young faculty in Moscow and Petersburg‚ Russia‚ whose interest was claimed to be literature per se. They were few in number‚ but their unmistakable insistence on the ideal status of literary study and stubborn pursuit for its realization has marked the beginning of a new era‚ and produced profound influence on the subsequent development of contemporary Western critical
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Written Report: Russian Formalism and New Criticism Formalism is a literary theory that was spearheaded by two main bodies – Russian Formalists and New Critics – which focused on understanding the literary text through the text itself. Its principles posed a great shift from the traditional approaches during its time‚ and so it sparked a movement in the field of literary studies that would adopt new perspectives and ideas. While Formalism received much criticism due to its dubious methods of
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