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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Verfremdungseffekt"”.
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Re-visionary bodies: Feminist/Brechtian theory in the plays of Paula Vogel
Paula Vogel adapts Bertolt Brecht's Verfremdungseffekt, social gestus, historicization and episodic structure in the plays The Baltimore Waltz, And Baby Makes Seven, Hot 'N' Throbbing , and Desdemona: a play about a handkerchief to re-vision constructions of gender, sexuality and feminine desire, …
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Dialectical Metafiction and the Self-Conscious Subject of American Modernism
… A decade before Bertolt Brecht developed his Verfremdungseffekt (or "alienation effect"), Sarah N. Cleghorn, Anna Louise Strong, and F. Scott Fitzgerald (in his short story "Winter Dreams") wrote dialectical metafiction, a literary form that reproduces the ideological forms of consciousness …
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"Rewriting and redefining Utopia; minorities' perfect existence or ultimate destruction"
… through an idea of Brechtâs called Verfremdungseffekt (prompting self-awareness), using the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission as an example of a vehicle for this agency. The agency then becomes the awareness, which leads to the direct negotiation with the dominant …
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Hyper-Democracy: The Politics of Aristophanes
… and alienating, amounting to a kind of Brechtian Verfremdungseffekt. With the audience members at times divided from each other and aware of the division, the contingency of their identities can be exposed, and Aristophanes’ open, expansive, and egalitarian conception of democracy can accordingly …