"That's a kind of defamiliarization that has sent people … wondering about this whole sort of world we live in," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Yale Daily News: Latest Issue] Reference
GGM does amazing things with Magical Realism, especially the defamiliarization of everyday things. From Wordnik.com. [On Style] Reference
Ankh-Moporkians are us, with a twist, and Pratchett is THE master of self-scrutiny through defamiliarization. From Wordnik.com. [Kindle Spotlight: The Science Fiction of Discworld | Spontaneous ∂erivation] Reference
One of the guiding principles in commercial production is that you must use defamiliarization to make your spot memorable. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - In the name of all things holy] Reference
In the best of them, the effect is defamiliarization, a chagrined awareness that even the least literary of worlds are made of words. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
One of the most useful techniques in this little goody bag is “defamiliarization” – where the writer takes the familiar and makes it strange. From Wordnik.com. [Tools of the Writing Trade « Write Anything] Reference
He labels such a predicament "automatization" (avtomatizatsiya), and he provides a solution for it, a technique he calls "making strange" or "defamiliarization" (ostranenie). From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: TRANSLATING SHKLOVSKY.] Reference
What Suvin argues in his work is that the defining characteristic of science fiction is the pwower of defamiliarization that allows us to see our own world more clearly and maybe for the first time, which is accomplished through the sort of intricate, even obsessive world-building confabulations SF is famous for. From Wordnik.com. [Infinite Summer #7: Is ‘Infinite Jest’ Science Fiction? « Gerry Canavan] Reference
Generally speaking, in these theorizations of what Kant had initially understood as a "reflective aesthetic judgment" paradoxically synonymous with estrangement and defamiliarization, the aesthetic has been grasped as the felt-as-necessary (but notoriously difficult to account for) "bridge" between nature and freedom, cognition and morality, theoretical and practical reason, fact and value. From Wordnik.com. [Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics] Reference
Such defamiliarization of everyday objects is the basis of. From Wordnik.com. [artforum.com] Reference
Through defamiliarization and a different form of presentation I question our ways of seeing. From Wordnik.com. [Rose DesRochers - World Outside my Window] Reference
Making strange, defamiliarization - these sound like good tactics for any educator to employ. From Wordnik.com. [Serial Consign] Reference
Likewise, Tamkin is interested in appropriating the defamiliarization of the nonmusical sounds of our daily reality, and combining this with the more melodic elements of the band's recent songs to create a new sound. From Wordnik.com. [UCLA Stories] Reference
S other thematic elements? what I describe as defamiliarization? will play out. From Wordnik.com. [Six Feet Under: This season there is no right choice | PopPolitics.com] Reference
Suvin’s term — modified from Vikor Shklovsky and Bertolt Brecht — for arguable and therefore structured defamiliarization of the world, which derives in part from the fact of Novum, and which allows the defectiveness of the ruling paradigm to be seen whole. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
Women’s theater, which creates its identity out of opposition to mainstream patriarchy, tends to opt for different characteristics: episodic form and “poor” theater — characteristics whose “defamiliarization” effect helps to emphasize — even to the point of defiance — their creators’ world view, which deviates from convention. From Wordnik.com. [Hebrew Drama: Representation of Women.] Reference
"defamiliarization"; after all, what are these "orbs?". From Wordnik.com. [The Millions] Reference
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