Children ̓s and Young Adults ̓ Literature group,Faculty of Literature and Foreign Languages, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran. , mosafer_e_barfi@yahoo.com
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The excitement of a child's new experience and the joy of the aesthetic creativity of art bring the child's and artistic gazes closer together. Art seeks to recover the excitement of a child's fresh gaze. For this reason, the theorist of Russian formalism, Shklovsky, considers art nothing more than a device of defamiliarization. In the vocabulary of the formalists, "device" refers to the formal aesthetic techniques of verbal and visual language in literary and artistic works, and "defamiliarization" refers to the liberation of concepts from the shackles of automatisme. From the examples of defamiliarization mentioned in Shklovsky's articles, it follows that he considers many of the devices to be a subset or a special case of the defamiliarization. The aim of this article is to compare the defamiliarization device and its subsets in two picture books: “If at First You do not See” illustrated and written by Ruth Brown, and “I Know Something You don’t Know” written and illustrated by Maria Enrica Agostinelli. The age ranges of these books are “A” and “B” categories. In this study, the Persian translation version of the first book and the original language (Italian) version of the second book are analyzed. These books have been translated into different languages, including Persian. The reason for choosing them is that the illustration and bookmaking devices in each of these two books are a model of the game-book genre, which, despite similar patterns, each has its own defamiliarization. This study, using an analytical-comparative method and relying on Shklovsky’s ideas, seeks to answer the similarities and differences between the aforementioned books in applying the defamiliarization device. The results of the research show that although the main characteristic of both works is the frequent use of the device of defamiliarization, they have less in common in the method of application and type of defamiliarization, and these formal differences have determined their substantive differences.
Article number: 13
Keywords: Picture book, If at First You do not See, I Know Something You don’t Know, formalism, Shklovsky.
Type of Study: Research |
Subject:
Visual Arts
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