The desfamiliarization: a sudden exile of perception

Taking the dynamic character of the concept of desfamiliarization (ostranienie) as its starting-point, the present essay aims to reconstruct the complicated history of that concept by the young Viktor Chklovski. Translated in several different ways, the concept of desfamiliarization was largely moti...

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Main Author: Olga Guerizoli-Kempinska
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Federal Fluminense 2010-12-01
Series:Gragoatá
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Online Access:http://www.gragoata.uff.br/index.php/gragoata/article/view/164
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Summary:Taking the dynamic character of the concept of desfamiliarization (ostranienie) as its starting-point, the present essay aims to reconstruct the complicated history of that concept by the young Viktor Chklovski. Translated in several different ways, the concept of desfamiliarization was largely motivated by the dialogue between the theory of art and the practice of the futurist poets and artists. As an open and fecund concept, desfamiliarization stresses the necessity to radically reinvent, through the art, the ways of the perception.
ISSN:1413-9073
2358-4114