| 单词 | alienation effect |
| 释义 | > as lemmasalienation effect c. Theatre. In full alienation effect. A dramatic effect whereby an audience remains objective and emotionally distant from the characters or action of a play. Cf. Verfremdungseffekt n.This effect was first described by, and is particularly associated with, Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) who sought to achieve it in his drama. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > [noun] > alienation effect Verfremdung1945 alienation1949 Verfremdungseffekt1951 endistancement1961 1949 E. R. Bentley in Theatre Arts Jan. 38/2 It is Brecht's contention that..we need a kind of acting..that will set the action before us rather than involve us in the action... The German word which Brecht has made up to describe the distancing or estranging of the action is Verfremdung, here translated as ‘alienation’. Any device which promotes such alienation is called an A-effect. 1956 K. Tynan in Observer 2 Sept. 10/2 The famous ‘alienation-effect’ was originally intended to counter balance the extravagant rhetoric of German classical acting. 1962 Listener 29 Nov. 932/2 This method of description seems almost like a parallel to Brecht's ‘alienation effect’. We watch, we judge, but we do not participate. 1990 M. Coyle et al. Encycl. Lit. & Crit. (2000) xxxi. 443 One can discern in Shaw's directorial style an attempt to achieve alienation and gestus. < as lemmas |
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