id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
expositions-1768	none	Madness Defamiliarized: The Value of Poetic Description of Mental Illness	2014	9	.pdf	application/pdf	4041	192	58	It seems reasonable, then, that most people Madness Defamiliarized 30 who are free from the extremes of mental illness might overestimate their ability to understand madness or sympathize with those who are suffering in its grip. The intent of describing madness in poetic, even bizarre language is not to undermine its severity or trivialize the very unpoetic pain of the sufferer; rather, poetic language can help us see madness where we have overlooked it before; and this goal finds a direct link with Shklovsky’s assertion that “After being perceived several times, objects acquire the status of ‘recognition.’	cache/expositions-1768.pdf	txt/expositions-1768.txt