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"The Yellow Wallpaper" (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story ") is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman , first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine . [ 1 ]
Defamiliarization of that which is or has become familiar or taken for granted, hence automatically perceived, is the basic function of all devices. And with defamiliarization come both the slowing down and the increased difficulty (impeding) of the process of reading and comprehending and an awareness of the artistic procedures (devices ...
Charlotte begins to write more. She writes "The Yellow Wallpaper", a story about someone living in the yellow wallpaper in the attic. Jennie returns with Catherine, a psychic. Charlotte and John are upset because they are finally happy with their situation. Catherine says that there are spirits behind the wallpaper, including Sarah and many others.
The Yellow Wallpaper, one of Gilman's most popular works, originally published in 1892, before her marriage to George Houghton Gilman. In 1890, Gilman wrote her short story "The Yellow Wallpaper", [30] which is now the all-time best selling book of the Feminist Press. [31]
Mooreeffoc, also known as the Mooreeffoc effect, [1] [2] [3] refers to what stylisticians call "defamiliarization". G. K. Chesterton used the phrase in his 1906 book Charles Dickens: A Critical Study [2] to “denote the queerness of things that have become trite, when they are seen suddenly from a new angle”.
According to Eichenbaum, Shklovsky was the lead critic of the group, and Shklovsky contributed two of their most well-known concepts: defamiliarization (ostraneniye, more literally, 'estrangement') and the plot/story distinction (syuzhet/fabula). "Defamiliarization" is one of the crucial ways in which literary language distinguishes itself from ...
“When "The Yellow Wallpaper" first came out, the public didn’t quite understand the message. The piece was treated as a horror story, kind of like the 19th century equivalent to The Exorcist. Nowadays, however, we understand "The Yellow Wallpaper" as an early feminist work.… but that people back in the 19th century just didn’t get that.”
The Prague Structuralists' work was a continuation of the ideas generated by the Russian Formalists, particularly their notion of Defamiliarization ('ostranenie'). Especially the 1917 essay 'Art as Technique' (Iskusstvo kak priem) by Viktor Shklovsky proved to be highly influential in laying the basis of an anthropological theory of literature.