Basis for the Site

So, after my last post, I got to thinking about this idea of defamiliarization and felt like I needed to familiarize myself with it to be honest. So follow this link and check out what Shklovsky himself said about defamiliarization. In this piece of literary criticism, he basically lays out his view of what art is and what the purpose of art is in society. It is his famous essay about defamiliarization itself.