A Study Of Russian Formalism And Defamiliarization Theory

Russian Formalism literature theory is one of the most influential and dynamic schools of literature in the early 20th century. Although this literary school existed only thirty years, it exerted a far-reaching impact on the literary creation of future generations and the development of literary theory. Russian Formalism literature theory expedited the Prague structuralism directly. When some scholars left Czechoslovakia to America in academic research because of certain political reasons, they brought their theories with them. So the Russian Formalism theory also promoted the development of the new criticism group, structuralism, semeiology, and semantics in the western world. It should be said that Russian Formalism literature theory makes double contributions to the development of western literary theories and the growth of new schools.For the first time in the history, the concept of "literariness" in Russian Formalism theory defines the nature of literature clearly. From then on, literature was distinguished from philosophy, sociology, psychology, and other fields of non-literary to become the real "this". One of important branches of Russian Formalism literature theory system is defamiliarization, which is of guiding significance to the innovation and development of literature and art. And in the research of relationship between defamiliarization and automation, formalist found it is the interweavement of defamiliarization and automation forms the intrinsic power, thus make the mysteries of literary evolve from the traditional theories of external causation to the internal motive so as to realize the pioneering breakthrough of traditional literary theory.This paper discusses in detail the context, specific connotation, psychology, techniques of expression, dartistic effect of defamiliarization theory and moderation principles. Then it presents scientific analysis and evaluation of formalism literature theory including its defects and also internal contradictory of "defamiliarization" theoryIn one word, defamiliarization theory is one of the important principles of the innovation and development of literature and art. Understanding and mastering this principle are of realistic significance for the development of the contemporary literature and literary theory.