Science fiction critic Simon Spiegel, who defines defamiliarization as "the formal-rhetorical act of making the familiar strange (in Shklovsky's sense)," distinguished it from Brecht's estrangement effect. To Spiegel, estrangement is the effect on the reader which can be caused by defamiliarization or through deliberate recontextualization of the familiar.
Science fiction critic Simon Spiegel who defines defamiliarization as "the formal-rhetorical act of making the familiar strange ,(in Shklovsky.'s sense)," distinguished it, from Brecht's estrangement effect To Spiegel estrangement is the effect on the reader which can be caused by defamiliarization or through deliberate recontextualization of the familiar.