defamiliarisation

The art of defamiliarisation, one of the main provinces of literature whereby stories show us the old and familiar but in new and disconcerting ways, could surely not, in their pages, be manipulated with such unnerving skill.

Family Happiness « Tales from the Reading Room 2008

The art of defamiliarisation, one of the main provinces of literature whereby stories show us the old and familiar but in new and disconcerting ways, could surely not, in their pages, be manipulated with such unnerving skill.

2008 October « Tales from the Reading Room 2008

Stripping away the aspect of defamiliarisation as a means of commentary on reality, how much does it really tell us about the narrative over and above a basic model where equilibrium is disturbed, struggled for, and finally re-established in a revised form?

Narrative Grammars Hal Duncan 2008

Stripping away the aspect of defamiliarisation as a means of commentary on reality, how much does it really tell us about the narrative over and above a basic model where equilibrium is disturbed, struggled for, and finally re-established in a revised form?

Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008

I feel uneasy about delineating a fixed definition, because literature itself is concerned with defamiliarisation; it is ever dynamic and changing in a way that arouses ire as often as passion, hence the dissentions over what can be classified as 'good'.

Conservative, essentialist 2009

It's immediately reminscent, as are many of the entries, of theme parks, which are one of the few things around that are less strange (in the Shklovsky sense, of, defamiliarisation, of making one see the world in a new, more conscious way) than Frank Gehry buildings.

sit down man, you're a bloody tragedy 2008