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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"ostranenie"”.
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Sentimentalism Made Strange: Shklovsky, Karamzin, Rousseau
… made strange. Using estrangement (ostranenie), the literary device identified by Shklovsky, as an organizing principle, I investigate the cultural shift towards an underlying crude, elemental, and ultimately `savage' aesthetic that is treated in the work of the three authors I …
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Urban Plateaus: Alienation, Disappearance, and the Random Encounter in Post-1945 Literature and Film
… practices, 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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Estrangement and the Thinking Subject in Psychological Prose Novels by Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, and Andrei Bitov
… since Viktor Shklovsky first coined the term ostranenie in 1917. Its experience is closely tied to intellectual growth in the artistic representation of the modern subject across eras and cultures. This dissertation focuses on the psychological implications of estrangement in the process of …
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Uncanny Bodies: an arts practice-based exploration of strategies to embody thresholds between life and death
… this with Viktor Shklovsky’s technique of ostranenie and a process of not knowing, with the intention to create outcomes which are unfamiliar or strange. Drawing, painting and writing reflectively has played a significant role in this methodology, allowing ideas to be evaluated, reimagined …
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Seeing it Straight
<p>This Master of Fine Arts thesis is divided into four main sections:FAITH and DISBELIEF: In which I reckon with the implications of faith versus rationality as a secular nontheistic artist. IDEAS: The central locus of my work is a place of indeterminacy between what is known/familiar and what is …