What does defamiliarization mean in literature, can you give some examples?

How to deal with the defamiliarization of poetic language?

Sichuan writer, poet and critic Yin Caigan summed up the methods of defamiliarization of poetic language (referred to as the "Three Mo Method") such as "abnormal collocation of words", "simultaneous development of heterogeneous words", and "confrontation between semantics (or contexts)") up and down" (referred to as "Sanmo Method"), which were written into the lecture notes of "Introduction to Poetry Creation" as innovative methods of poetry. As an innovative method of lyrics, it was written into the textbook "Introduction to Lyric Creation", and readers have set off a "wave of exploration of the defamiliarization of poetry (lyrics) language".

Excerpt from Yin Caigan's "Exploration of the Defamiliarization of Poetic Language".

Language defamiliarization is written into middle school Chinese textbooks.

In the article "How to Read Poems" in the second lesson of the first unit of "Selected Poems of Ai Qing" in the first volume of the current junior high school Chinese (organized by the Ministry of Education, edited by Wen Rumin, People's Education Publishing House, 2018 edition), it is written: "Poets extract language from daily life, enlighten and eliminate disadvantages and deal with 'defamiliarization', so that the energy of poetic language is greater and the expression is more novel and unique. ”

Among them, "defamiliarization" refers to the theory of defamiliarization, which was proposed by the Russian critic Shklovsky in 1917, but his creative practice has existed in ancient times. It is to express familiar things as unfamiliar things, so as to create a double sense of re-strangeness in the presentation of language and the experience of word connotation. (Yin Caigan's "Language Defamiliarization, Should Be Leisurely" in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas.")

Frontiers of Education, Issue 3, 2023) Chinese teachers often use the "language defamiliarization model (referred to as the "Sanmo Method") explored by the contemporary Sichuan writer, poet and critic Yin Caiqian to explain: "abnormal and quiet collocation of words", "heterogeneity of words", "semantic (or contextual) confrontation", etc. This "language defamiliarization model" has been written into the lecture notes of "Introduction to Poetry Creation" as an innovative method of poetry; As an innovative method of lyrics, it was written into the textbook of "Lecture Notes on Lyric Creation", and as an innovative method of writing, it was compiled into "Poetry Writing Course" and "Creative Writing Course", and at the same time, "Modern Chinese", "Introduction to Linguistics", "Common Stylistics Course", etc., set off a "wave of exploration of poetry (lyrics) language defamiliarization", and achieved good results.

Yin Caigan, "Exploration of the Defamiliarization of Poetry Language"). Decades of creative practice have shown that "defamiliarization" is indeed a good way to bring vitality to literary and artistic creation.

The so-called defamiliarization is a deviation from conventional common sense, resulting in a sense of strangeness in speech understanding and feeling. In terms of referents, it is necessary to turn those Eastern Europeans that people are accustomed to in reality into a kind of speech and feeling with new meaning and new vitality; In terms of the structure of speech, it is necessary to turn those rules of speech that are accustomed to people in daily speech into a kind of speaking art with a new form and new aesthetic value. Defamiliarization is a basic law of all kinds of arts, and as an art of speaking, rhetoric also attaches great importance to it.

In the application of speech, it transforms habits into new things, turns old and stale into strange, conveys vivid feelings, and creates shocking effects, which is the pervasive phenomenon and basic law in the cultivation of the sundial.