Hi! Eagleton tries to find a definition of literature. In a part of "what is literature?", he says: It was language made strange and because of this entrangement, the everyday world was also suddenly made unfamiliar. In the routines of everyday speech, our perceptions of and responses to reality become stale, blunted, or, as the Formalists would say "automatized". LITERATURE BY FORCING US INTO A DRAMATIC AWARENESS OF LANGUAGE, REFRESHES THESE HABITUAL RESPONSES AND RENDERS OBJECTS MORE PERCEPTIBLE. What does he mean in the sentence written in capital letters? Thanks