Victor Shklovsky, the Russian formalist, coined and popularized the notion of defamiliarization: the creative distortion of the world of ordinary perception to renew the reader's diminished capacity for fresh perception. Estranging devices of the formalists and the general principles that inform defamiliarization are categorized in this article, and techniques of "making strange" and their function are identified in the gospels.
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