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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Defamiliarization"”.
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The Politics Of Defamiliarization In Blake's Printed Works
The works of William Blake are notoriously strange. Multimedia artifacts with stylized illustrations and texts that have unusual forms and proper names, they evade the limits of the familiar. But such an evasion is not simply aesthetic. For Blake, the familiar world is entangled in a web of false …
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Temporal structure and meaning : the defamiliarization of the reader in Faulkner's Go down, Moses
This study of Faulkner's Go Down, Moses uses the reader-response theories of Wolfgang Iser to examine the affective impact of strategically-arranged folk conventions and mythopoeic devices upon a textually-based, white "civilized" reader. Using the devices of Southwestern humor, the trickster, and …
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What We Understand to Be Ghosts
… thesis is to explore Victor Schklovsky's idea of defamiliarization from his essay "Art as Technique” and Mikhail Bakhtin's idea of polyphony as defined in his book Problems in Dostoevsky's Poetics through the practice of writing short fiction. The stories collected in the thesis explore these …
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Politics of popular creativity and popular knowledge: on the case of adbusters and Harry Potter fans
… busted. I investigate the different politics of defamiliarization between two specific busted ads. The politics of defamiliarization create moving images based on the Freudian uncanny and Brechtian Verfremdung. My second case involves Harry Potter fans and fan fiction writing. Specifically, I …
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The Collective (A Novel): Part One
… this thesis lays the footstones of a dramatic defamiliarization of the Santa Claus myth. I’ve turned everything about the myth around, made it more realistic in terms of working-class environs, attitudes. I’ve brought it into the 21st century, and the years haven’t been kind. The Santa of “The …
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The story that cannot be told: nine chapters of historical fiction with a craft essay
… “The Slow and the Strange: Deceleration and Defamiliarization in All the Light We Cannot See, The Tiger’s Wife, and The Story That Cannot Be Told.”
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Umthonyama
… and Viktor Shklyovsky's concept of 'defamiliarization' as theoretical and formal approaches in my enquiry. To these ends, my thesis production, Umthonyama --cyclical, durational live-art installation, work -- is stylized as a queer 'homily' that rehearses and celebrates a queer …
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Things made strange : de︠st︡abilizing habitual perception
… this thesis, I explore the creative strategy of defamiliarization in my own pra︠ct︡ice and regard the works that I have produced at MIT as experimental and experiential frameworks that have the capacity generate the awakening of critical awareness of perception. Besides providing documentation of …
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The Music Of Peter Maxwell Davies Based On The Writings Of George Mackay Brown
… particularly as regards the composer's use of 'defamiliarization' to creative a subversive effect. This device has frequently been employed in scores reflecting Maxwell Davies's attitude to cultural, political, or social issues - again developing aspects of Mackay Brown's influence - and in the …
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Urban Plateaus: Alienation, Disappearance, and the Random Encounter in Post-1945 Literature and Film
… and Viktor Shklovsky’s <em>ostranenie</em>, or defamiliarization. The dissertation’s ultimate aim is to both contribute to the field of knowledge on the city—real and imagined—as well as to serve a disalienating function for the reader.</p>
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Hyper-Democracy: The Politics of Aristophanes
… Frogs. We move, in other words, from Brechtian ‘defamiliarization’ to Rancièrian dissensus – a move Rancière himself makes when addressing the thorny issue of the political efficacy of art, discussed in my ‘parabasis’ (‘From Defamiliarization to Dissensus’). These disruptive moments constitute …
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Performing texts; playing with jazz aesthetics
… a jazz aesthetic are located in various texts---defamiliarization, reciprocity, incremental repetition, collective contextualization---no attempt is made to codify or delimit an understanding of jazz aesthetics. Rather, the performance is meant to organically give rise to and embody the aesthetic …
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THE LOAN OF A LOOKING GLASS: SHAKESPEARE, MYTH, AND PARADIGMATIC STRUCTURES
… at cultural assumptions through the language of defamiliarization--often spoken by his fool figures. He explodes the fictive myth--our "willing suspension of disbelief"--by self-reflexive language which upsets our illusionary sense of control over language and human destiny. Reading Cycle Process …
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Everything Broken is Waiting to Be Fixed
<p><em>Everything Broken is Waiting to Be Fixed</em> is an Appalachian magical realism novel in stories about a boy who attempts to reconcile his childhood experiences and his family's oral history with his experiences as an adult living outside Appalachia. The book attempts to challenge readers to …
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Defense d'afficher : the wartime art of Jean Lurç̧at and Jean Dubuffet
… the walls by Vichy and Nazi propaganda, and the defamiliarization of the social environment caused by dislocation and occupation, how and what could an artist -- one who wished to avoid cultural collaboration -- produce? This thesis examines the works of two artists who, however secretly, …
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From Injury to Silence: Metaphors for Language in the Work of Herta Muller
Herta Müller represents physical suffering and repression in her works, often reflecting on the regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu, and her constant interest in language and reflexivity towards writing have led her to develop sophisticated metaphors that she uses to illuminate language and its functioning …
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Elizabeth Bishop's Photographic Poetics: The Peripheral Vision
Elizabeth Bishop‘s poetics of description has been the object of numerous critical studies. These most often focus on questions of observation, positioning, framing, and refer to Bishop‘s aesthetics as ―optical poetics.‖ Instead of simply using optical vocabulary to talk about her work, I …
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Elizabeth Bishop's Photographic Poetics: The Peripheral Vision
Elizabeth Bishop‘s poetics of description has been the object of numerous critical studies. These most often focus on questions of observation, positioning, framing, and refer to Bishop‘s aesthetics as ―optical poetics.‖ Instead of simply using optical vocabulary to talk about her work, I …