Ostranenie Does Not Equal Ozvláštnění: An Issue of a Term Transferred and Misunderstood

Abstract

Thee text focuses on the question of the transfer and translation of several Formalist concepts, such as ostranenie and tochka zrenia. The interpretation is based on Boris Uspensky's A Poetics of Composition, it revisits the original definition provided Viktor Shklovsky and illustrates it by the work of the German photographer Barbara Probst.

Keywords

• Ostranenie
• Does
• Not
• Equal
• Ozvláštnění
• Issue
• Term
• Transferred
• Misunderstood