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- noun Brecht's
alienation effect , sometimes translated as theestrangement effect. - noun theater
Distance between the audience and the performers.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Just like Guys and Dolls with a dash of Verfremdungseffekt.
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I have avoided using all features common to the dramatic form, including plot, character development, word play, humor, Verfremdungseffekt, involution, and any explicit or implicit references to myself, Ryan Morrison, and the narrow world I inhabit.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » A History of Modern Japanese Literary Criticism: Act One, Scene 2 2009
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I have avoided using all features common to the dramatic form, including plot, character development, humor, word play, Verfremdungseffekt, involution, and any explicit or implicit references to myself, Ryan Morrison, and the narrow world I inhabit.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » A History of Modern Japanese Literary Criticism: Act One, Scene 1 2009
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That was their Andy Warhol moment of fame and self-destruction, since the bass guitarist's attempt to explain Brecht's Verfremdungseffekt to the judge and jury immediately branded him as a bourgeois accommodationist.
Milton and the Schismatics Leverenz, David 1989
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Lescot knows his Brecht, the "Verfremdungseffekt," or distantiation, the cabaret style and the songs that, in the German playwright's works, comment on the action.
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Verfremdungseffekt: deliberately alerting the audience to the artificiality of the drama to remind them that the big themes are more important than the imaginary characters.
Cultural Snow 2008
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