AUTOMATIZATION AND DEFAMILIRIZATION IN LUKE 7:36–50¹

A Glossary of New Testament Narrative Criticism with Illustrations

“…The reader's renewed mode of perception is achieved through literary devices or techniques that disrupt automatic perception-slowing down the reading process so that the familiar no longer seems familiar. Shklovsky provides several examples of defamiliarization techniques: a novel point of view, the substitution of the unexpected for the expected, a subtle twisting of a commonplace phrase, and the deformation of a familiar context (Shklovsky [1917] 2012; Resseguie 1988Resseguie , 1990Resseguie , 1991. The process of "making strange" forces the reader to view worn-out rhetoric, familiar contexts, stereotyped phrases, and jaded conventions in unfamiliar ways.…”

Defamiliarized family: The “Anak ng OFWs’” emergent narratives on mediated communication and parent-child relationships

“…Victor Shklovsky, (1965( , as cited in Resseguie,1991 a Russian Formalist, coined the term defamiliarization, or ostranenie, which literally means "making strange. " The theory tells that ordinarily, people's perception of the world is habitual, economical, and automatic (Resseguie, 1991;Mambrol, 2016). The meanings that hold become too familiar, so that they become desensitized: "Habitualization creates a desensitizing pall over the world, depriving us of actual experience.…”

“…When one interrogates the present realities, seemingly different from the origins of an OFW family, they defamiliarize the familiar. Resseguie (1991) defines defamiliarization as "the creative distorting of a familiar object or a routine convention to make it appear strange and unfamiliar" (p. 137). One's normal, everyday perception of the traditional Filipino family, since it is habitual and automatic, recognizes it as a mere silhouette and they fail to see it as it truly is, making stale their awareness of the world.…”