ostranenie
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ostranenie
1917; < Russian; coined by Viktor Shklovsky, Russian writer and literary critic
Example Sentences
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Artistic estrangement — originally ostranenie, a word coined by the Russian literary theorist Viktor Shklovsky — is sometimes translated as “defamiliarization.”
From New York Times
For Shklovsky, ostranenie occurs when a writer creates “a special way of experiencing an object, to make one not ‘recognize’ it but ‘see’ it.”
From New York Times
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