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- noun Alternative spelling of
defamiliarisation .
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Examples
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This time this trip becomes an exercise in defamiliarization.
Archive 2008-09-01 The Nag 2008
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"That's a kind of defamiliarization that has sent people … wondering about this whole sort of world we live in," he said.
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"That's a kind of defamiliarization that has sent people … wondering about this whole sort of world we live in," he said.
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"That's a kind of defamiliarization that has sent people … wondering about this whole sort of world we live in," he said.
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"That's a kind of defamiliarization that has sent people … wondering about this whole sort of world we live in," he said.
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"That's a kind of defamiliarization that has sent people … wondering about this whole sort of world we live in," he said.
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"That's a kind of defamiliarization that has sent people … wondering about this whole sort of world we live in," he said.
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Incidentally, I have been thinking in the past few days that, taken to its extreme, Averroes’ situation is that of poetics of "defamiliarization", which the Russian formalists describe as representing something in such a way that one feels as if one were seeing it for the first time, thus making the perception of the object difficult for the reader.
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One of the most useful techniques in this little goody bag is “defamiliarization” – where the writer takes the familiar and makes it strange.
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GGM does amazing things with Magical Realism, especially the defamiliarization of everyday things.
On Style 2007
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