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A guide to countries around the world, including facts, travel essentials, and extensive coverage of culture, history, and language.
Series
Key debates volume 1
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Summary: Defamiliarisation or ostrannenie, 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, ihas become one of the central concept of modern artistic practice, ranging over movements including Dada, postmodernism, epic theatre, and science fiction, as well as our response to arts. Coined by the Soviet literary critic Victor Shklovskii in 1917, ostrannenie...