We investigated how processing fluency and defamiliarization (the art of rendering familiar notions unfamiliar) contribute to the affective and esthetic processing of reading in an event-related functional magnetic-resonance-imaging experiment. We compared the neural correlates of processing (a) familiar German proverbs, (b) unfamiliar proverbs, (c) defamiliarized variations with altered conten...

Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’, through the portray of the ‘monster’ hints the uncanny defamiliarization of the familiar role of the society. It shows how the society if anybody does not suit its taste alienates that from itself. The monster’s hideous appearance is the reason of the society’s disliking it and so it is regarded with disgust and hatred. This results not only in the reader’s realiz...

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Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (1954) is a parody of the world following World War II. The play exemplifies spirit age by using defamiliarization as textual strategy means which characters utilize epistemic modals leading their conversational exchanges to never-ending voidness and uncertainty. Therefore, this study analyses discoursal features focusing on modality primary void indecisive at...

Critical development studies require not just a critical attitude, but also usable tools. This article suggests some forms of discourse analysis that can add substance to studies’ aspirations and yet be learnt used by students without specialist background. Central are tools for ‘making strange’ (defamiliarization), so we view both texts social realities in fresh independent way start discern b...

The fictional world imaginatively constituted during literary reading is sometimes compared with the imaginal world created during dreaming. At the core of both reading and dreaming may be the type of attentional adjustment that occurs when departures from expected events emerge in experience. During dreaming, markers of this attentional adjustment – and of the related transformations of dream ...