The Greatest Possible Effect Defamiliarization in Brecht, Handke and Snow

Date of Award

2008

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Cuomo, Glenn

Keywords

Defamiliarization, Epic Theatre, Wordplay

Area of Concentration

Literature

Abstract

Defamiliarization is the process through which subjects normalized by experience are renewed and made strange by aesthetic mediation. Playwrights Bertolt Brecht and Peter Handke, and multimedia artist Michael Snow each employ defamiliarizing devices that not only renew the experience of their given subjects, but also make strange the mediums they work in. Brecht�s alienation effect is a materialist variant of defamiliarization that instructs the viewer in assuming a Marxist perspective. Peter Handke�s Offending The Audience borrows Brecht�s alienated stage sans political motivation as to defamiliarize the experience of the utterance. Michael Snow�s short film So Is This follows Handke in its defamiliarization of language, but departs in its specific focus on text.

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