ENGL 395 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Defamiliarization, Habituation, Tom Bombadil
20 Mar 2016
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Lecture 14 march 17: the establishment of a secondary world with the inner consistency of reality, the commentary on a society caught in a moment of historical and social change, the ethical or moral dimentsion ot fantasy stories. 4: freud on eros and thanatos, quesions: Which side do you support and why: how are the two types of gods connected in this novel. Habituaion (shklovsky): we tend to get habituated and familiarized to things and people in our lives and in our world. You are no longer actually perceiving the object or acivity in front of you and it just happens automaically. Failure of percepion our senses aren"t working and art serves to break this process so we can see things anew. We become habituated to things that we hear, see, and experience over and over again. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy is a book that desensiizes us to the things we are familiar with.
