defamiliarisation

Noun

defamiliarisation (countable and uncountable, plural defamiliarisations)

1. The representation of objects anew, in a way that we do not recognize, or that changes our reading of them.
   • It therefore works via a process of ‘defamiliarisation’ (ostranenie) (Shklovsky instances defamiliarisation as an effect to be found in riddles with their play on words, and in euphemistic references to erotic subjects).1991, Antony Easthope, Literary Into Cultural Studies
   • Fourth, and finally, while postmodernist works like Lodge’s Changing Places and Small World give the impression of being satires, because of their self-conscious and rather thick use of parody as a means to defamiliarisation, along with their presentation of a humorous world, the satirical attack...1991, Brian A. Connery, “Inside Jokes: Familiarity and Contempt in Academic Satire”, in David Bevan, editor, University Fiction

   Synonyms:

   ostranenie