Vervreemdingstegnieke in Gert Vlok Nel se digbundel Om te lewe is onnatuurlik

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT:In this thesis the techniques of defamiliarisation in Gert Vlok Nel's Om telewe is onnatuurlik (1993) are investigated, especially with the aid of theRussian Formalist concept ostranenie.The introductory chapter expounds the theoretical basis. With reference tosome reviews the question is investigated whether the volume can beregarded as worker poetry. After this follows an explanation of the conceptostranenie as understood by the Formalists, especially Victor Shklovsky,and of the concept Verfremdungseffekt as formulated by Bertolt Brecht.These concepts are then compared with the postmodemist notion of de-naturalization as used by, for example, Linda Hutcheon. In addition toFormalist theory other theories will be used in an eclectic fashion: semiostructuralism(Mikhail Bakhtin and Michael Riffaterre), reception theory(Wolfgang Iser) and psychoanalysis (Harold Bloom). Because om te lewe is onnatuurlik was created in postmodemity, the theoretical approach is alsopredominantly of a poetmodern nature.In the practical part of the thesis seven poems are discussed in order tohighlight the principal techniques of defamiliarisation in each one: theuse of ellipses and parody (die dag toe hulle vir Donkie Viviers); selfreflexivity and metafidional elements(desember & see); childlikefocalisation and register (soeklig and boggellug); typographical experimentation(landskap); spatial relativation (Rita and hillside) andretardation (hillside).

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University