Defamiliarization: The Art of “Making Strange” | Gilliam Writers Group
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Defamiliarization: The Art of “Making Strange” | Gilliam Writers Group
This Sontag quote maps onto my essay framework of voice (sight, sound, spirit):
“What is important now is to recover our senses. We must learn to see more, to hear more, to feel more.”
See more: imagery, concision, motif;
Hear more: rhythm, reputation, rhyme;
Feel more: tone, perspective, subtext.
She quotes Viktor Shklovsky: “habitualization devours work, clothes, furniture, one's wife, and the fear of war... and art exists so that one may recover the sensation of life.” Then she goes on: “ the trick in writing/life... is to figure out how to import a chunk of the past into the present, so your present self can feel all the things you’ve... See more