Defamiliarization in Mohsen Namjoo: A Marcusian Study of “Reza Khan”
Estrangement: a short overview
Mikics defines defamiliarization (estrangement) and as an example he cites Fredric Jameson, which is his accounts of Studying Gulliver’s Travels. It states:
Defamiliarization in Russian, ostranenie: a term from the Russian formalist school of criticism, active in the early twentieth century. […] According to the Russian formalists, literary art devotes itself to the making strange (the defamiliarizing, or estranging) of our accustomed perceptions. At the same time, art exposes its own formal devices, estranging the techniques of representation. The purpose is to make life newly interesting as, or through, art: to get us to experience it as …show more content…
(Quiin, 112)
Viktor Shklovsky coined the term in his essay Art as Technique (1917). In this essay, Shklovsky tries to make a distinction between what is poetic and artistic language and what is ordinary and everyday language; he believes that poetic and artistic language should have the ability to make the familiar, unfamiliar for the reader. Further he develops this notion and expands it to art as general.
“The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects ‘unfamiliar,’ to make forms difficult to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged”. ( Shklovsky, 16)
Shklovsky believes that the artist should try as hard as he can to slow the process of perception in the eye of his viewer, because this slowness refrains the viewer from passing from the artistic object without pondering and it makes him to stop on the artistic object and think about it for a while. He
Estrangement: a short overview
Mikics defines defamiliarization (estrangement) and as an example he cites Fredric Jameson, which is his accounts of Studying Gulliver’s Travels. It states:
Defamiliarization in Russian, ostranenie: a term from the Russian formalist school of criticism, active in the early twentieth century. […] According to the Russian formalists, literary art devotes itself to the making strange (the defamiliarizing, or estranging) of our accustomed perceptions. At the same time, art exposes its own formal devices, estranging the techniques of representation. The purpose is to make life newly interesting as, or through, art: to get us to experience it as …show more content…
(Quiin, 112)
Viktor Shklovsky coined the term in his essay Art as Technique (1917). In this essay, Shklovsky tries to make a distinction between what is poetic and artistic language and what is ordinary and everyday language; he believes that poetic and artistic language should have the ability to make the familiar, unfamiliar for the reader. Further he develops this notion and expands it to art as general.
“The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects ‘unfamiliar,’ to make forms difficult to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged”. ( Shklovsky, 16)
Shklovsky believes that the artist should try as hard as he can to slow the process of perception in the eye of his viewer, because this slowness refrains the viewer from passing from the artistic object without pondering and it makes him to stop on the artistic object and think about it for a while. He