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Complete Definition of "defamiliarisation"
English
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Alternative spellings
defamiliarization
Etymology
Possibly a calque of the Russian о���анение (ostranenie) as used by w:Viktor Shklovsky|Viktor Shklovsky.

Noun
defamiliarisation

  1. (arts) The representation of objects anew, in a way that we do not recognize, or that changes our reading of them.
Synonyms
ostranenie
Quotations
1991, Antony Easthope, Literary Into Cultural Studies 1
1991, Brian A. Connery, �Inside Jokes: Familiarity and Contempt in Academic Satire,� in University Fiction, David Bevan, ed. 2
1996, Andrew Bowie, From Romanticism to Critical Theory 3
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