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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"defamiliarisation"”.
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Interface : a new political landscape at the union buildings
… situated within a process of eternal return, and defamiliarisation is utilised as a strategy to ask questions about and through architecture. The interface between land and building is cast in a hierarchical role, where architecture becomes a mask to the landscape as an analogy for the political …
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Aspects of the fantastic grotesque in the works of V. Mayakovsky, M. Bulgakov and E. Schwartz
… is one of the most clearly expressed devices of defamiliarisation. After a long period of taboo a revival takes place in the sixties. An attempt has been made in thls thesis to define the grotesque and to apply this definition to the works of V. Mayakovaky, M. Bulgakoy and E. Schwartz. We are …
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Defamiliarising the Familiar: The Distorted Body in Photography
… distortions is situated within the context of defamiliarisation and Freud’s theory of the ‘uncanny’ (Freud 1919), which refers to an estranged yet familiar sensation, and is a pivotal component in the examination of visually distorted human bodies that do not conform with normative perceptions. …
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Composition Portfolio
… by Viktor Shklovsky’s theory of aesthetic defamiliarisation. Finally, as a form of transcription, the research draws on Ferruccio Busoni’s observations about notation and its key transmutational role in manipulating and recasting musical ideas. By adopting an eclectic attitude towards …
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The Forgotten Trope: Metonymy in Poetic Action
… Premised on the notion of poetic language as defamiliarisation and following the establishment of an operational definition of metonymy, a corpus of ancient Greek texts, chiefly from lyric poetry and tragedy, is examined and metonymic occurrences are isolated. Contrasting categories of …
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'God Does Not Regard Your Forms': Gender and Literary Representation in the Works of Farīd al-Dīn 'Aṭṭār Nīshāpūrī
… formalist literary critiques using the lenses of defamiliarisation and paradox/apophasis. Ultimately, this research reveals the need for careful, critical studies of medieval views on gender, and contributes to the bodies of literature on Islamicate sexualities and the construction of sainthood in …
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Puppets between human, animal and machine: towards the modes of movement contesting the anthropocentric view of life in animation
… anthropocentric conventions, examining their defamiliarisation of the animating human subject’s mastery over the animated non/subhuman object, and the non-anthropocentric sensations which their movements arouse on screen in the relationship between humanity and materiality.
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Metaphysical balm and the poet as legislator
… be used by a poet to achieve literariness and defamiliarisation. It will touch on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and his concepts of folk humour and grotesque realism in a text. Carolyn Forché's idea of poetry as a witness of a lived experience, as enunciated in her text Against Forgetting: …
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Microscopy and Modernist Fiction from Hardy to Beckett
… has the potential to be an instrument of defamiliarisation par excellence, an imaginative means of sharpening and renewing our perception of perception. The final chapter focuses on Beckett’s early fiction, which questions the reliability of the naked eye through close descriptions of the …
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NATØ: Exploring architecture as a narrative medium in postmodern London
… montage, fragmentation, polyvocality and defamiliarisation. Framing NATØ’s work through an understanding of the way in which their use of medium evolved alongside their conceptual ideas, the thesis considers the material in relation to four distinct areas, each constituting a chapter: …