Defamiliarization What is it? Defamiliarization is the artistic technique of forcing the audience to see common things in an unfamiliar or strange way‚ in order to enhance perception of the familiar. According to Viktor Shklovsky‚ a Russian writer who coined the term ‘Defamiliarization’‚ “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
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House of Asterion‚ written by Jorge Luis Borges‚ is a short story that takes a first person point of view of a Minotaur named Asterion. The story is about Asterion’s life style and how he occupies his time. However the reader doesn’t find out that Asterion is a Minotaur until the very end of the story. Without this key piece of information the reader cannot view Asterion as a regular person. Another important part of the story that is left out is how his house is labyrinth. This again makes it easier
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Jorge Luis Borges uses diction in specific sections of his short stories‚ specifically the opening and closing scenes to affect the reader’s experience of these moments in the stories. Specifically looking at Death and the Compass and The South we‚ as readers‚ can have an improved perception of important events in these short stories. It is also easier to go back and read the stories and pick up on many elements of foreshadowing in specific sections of each story based on clues left behind by the
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In his essay “The Origins of Half-Human‚ Half-animal Creatures” Jorge states‚ “A monster is nothing but a combination of elements taken from real creatures and the combinatory possibility’s border on the infinite” This helps Shakespeare’s claim about creating the monsters because it happens in The Tempest not just with
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likely” (Jorge Luis Borges). In the story‚ the main character seems to live in an abnormal reality. However‚ this quote explains that his reality may just be an illusion. Borges’ writings are about the about the brain and elliptical‚ which means it is meant to be hard to understand. Additionally‚ he uses a lot of imagery because he was left blind. In fact‚ he wrote “The circular ruins‚” which is about a man who believes his purpose is to bring someone into existence. As said before‚ Borges leaves his
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include "A Lover" (1917)‚ "Autumn" (1919)‚ and "Opal" (1919)‚ all by Amy Lowell Magic Realism Fabulous and fantastical events are included in a narrative that otherwise maintains objective realism Magic Realism Authors include Jorge Luis Borges Borges and Zora Neale Hurston (More specifically the scene with talking vultures in "Their Eyes were Watching God) Minimalism Extreme restriction of a work’s contents to a bare minimum of necessary elements Minimalism Authors include
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The Name of the Rose is the first novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327‚ an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction‚ biblical analysis‚ medieval studies and literary theory.Umberto Eco‘s novel The Name of the Rose was first published in 1980‚ in its original language‚ Italian. Shortly thereafter‚ it was translated into several other languages‚ helping Eco attain his first global hit. In his old age‚ Adso
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writing poetry becomes more difficult for him. It is perhaps not accidental that similar limitations affected other personalities‚ such as Beethoven‚ who‚ as composer‚ lost his hearing‚ Michelangelo‚ who as an artist lost also his sight‚ or Jorge Luis Borges‚ whose blindness didn’t prevent him from writing. The next theme is light‚ strongly related with the theme of limitation. Light represents what can be perceived with the eyes‚ but it also has the meaning of spiritual light. The poet expresses
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Theme of the Traitor and the Hero by JORGE LUIS BORGES So the Platonic year Whirls out new right and wrong‚ Whirls in the old instead; All men are dancers and their tread Goes to the barbarous clangour of a gong. W. B. Yeats: The Tower Under the notable influence of Chesterton (contriver and embellisher of elegant mysteries) and the palace counselor Leibniz (inventor of the pre-established harmony)‚ in my idle afternoons I have imagined this story plot which I shall perhaps write someday
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Metafiction in Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges Borges’ use of metafiction in the compiled short stories of “Ficciones”‚ shows a different type of narrative technique. The author interpolates ideas or stories within his stories to provide a critique of his own work in order to analyze the basic structures of narrative fiction. In Borges’ short stories “The Circular Ruins” and“The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim”‚ Borges critiques his own style of writing by creating a fictional story within his fictional
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