单词 | defamiliarization |
释义 | defamiliarizationn. In literature and other forms of artistic production: the effect or technique of disrupting the reader's or audience's habitual perception of the world and making familiar elements in a text, play, etc., seem strange and fresh, esp. by means of drawing attention to the language or formal devices used. Later also more generally: the fact or process of rendering something unfamiliar.Often with reference to the literary theories of Russian formalism (see formalism n. 5a) or, in early use occasionally, the plays of Bertolt Brecht, in which context the usual term is now alienation (see alienation n. 1c). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [noun] > defamiliarization defamiliarization1958 1958 tr. B. Brecht in Mainstream June 3 The presentation exposed the subject matter and the happenings to a process of de-familiarization. De-familiarization was required to make things understood. When things are 'self-evident', understanding is simply dispensed with. 1965 L. T. Lemon & M. J. Reis tr. V. B. Šklovskij Russ. Formalist Crit. 13 The familiar act of flogging is made unfamiliar both by the description and by the proposal to change its form without changing its nature. Tolstoy uses this technique of ‘defamiliarization’ [Rus. ostranenie] constantly. 1971 E. M. Thompson Russ. Formalism ii. ii. 94 klovskij..did not look at defacilitation and defamiliarization only in terms of their being noticeable in one epoch and unnoticeable in another. 1976 T. Eagleton Crit. & Ideol. iii. 79 Defamiliarisation may revitalise an ideology for reactionary ends. 1985 Guardian 1 July 7/5 Old socialist nostrums and the rhetoric in which they were encased now often appear..irrelevant. The crisis experienced by the Left has been one of defamiliarisation. 2002 Church Times 15 Feb. 21/3 Present day editions of the Bible are, in some ways, rather too successful in making the scriptures relevant. But if this is the case, The Bible is a stunning exercise in defamiliarisation. 2007 Independent 10 Dec. (Extra section) 12/5 The pictures invite recognition but also hold obstacles: the inherent bizarreness of these inter-zone areas, the defamiliarisation of an overhead perspective, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1958 |
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