Narrative plots can also be defamiliarized. The Russian formalists distinguished between the fabula or basic story stuff of a narrative and the syuzhet or the formation of the story stuff into a concrete plot. For Shklovsky, the syuzhet is the fabula defamiliarized. Shklovsky cites Lawrence Sterne's Tristram Shandy as an example of a story that is defamiliarized by unfamiliar plotting.Victor Shklovsky, "Sterne's Tristram Shandy: Stylistic Commentary" in Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays, 2nd ed., trans. Lee T. Lemon and Marion J. Reis (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2012), 25–57. Sterne uses temporal displacements, digressions, and causal disruptions (e.g., placing the effects before their causes) to slow down the reader's ability to reassemble the (familiar) story. As a result, the syuzhet "makes strange" the fabula.
Narrative plots can also be defamiliarized The Russian formalists distinguished between the fabula or basic story stuff of a narrative and the syuzhet or the formation of the story stuff into a concrete plot For Shklovsky the syuzhet is the fabula defamiliarized Shklovsky cites Lawrence Sterne's Tristram Shandy as an example of a story that is defamiliarized by unfamiliar plottingVictor Shklovsky "Sterne's Tristram Shandy Stylistic Commentary" in Russian Formalist Criticism Four Essays 2nd ed trans Lee T Lemon and Marion J Reis (Lincoln NE University of Nebraska Press 2012) 25–57 Sterne uses temporal displacements digressions and causal disruptions (eg placing the effects before their causes) to slow down the reader's ability to reassemble the (familiar) story As a result the syuzhet "makes strange" the fabula