Re-evaluating

Abstract

Abstract: "Foregrounding" is a key term of the Prague School, and due to its similarity with "defamiliarization," "foregrounding" has caused some misreading, which further leads to the misunderstanding of the relationship between the Prague School and the Russian Formalism. Starting with this term, the Prague School constructed a sophisticated system of structuralist aesthetics and literary theory, which surpassed the Russian Formalism. The concept of "foregrounding" foretells a contextualist aesthetics, which pointed to the contextualist turn of aesthetics in the 20^th century.

Key words: the Prague School, structuralism, foregrounding, contextualism, defamiliarization

Yang Lei. Re-evaluating "Foregrounding": The Prague School's Contributions to Aesthetics[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2015, 35(2): 81-88.

References

埃米尔·本维尼斯特：《普通语言学问题》，王东亮等译。北京：三联书店，2008年。
[Benveniste, E. Problems of General Linguistics. Trans. Wang Dongliang, et al. Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2008.]
陈平原陈国球编：《文学史》第一辑。北京：北京大学出版社，1993年。
[Chen, Pingyuan, and Chen Guoqiu, eds. Literary History. Series 1. Beijing: Peking University Press, 1993.]
方珊编：《俄国形式主义文论选》。北京：三联书店，1997年。
[Fang, Shan, ed. Selected Literary Criticism Papers of Russian Formalism. Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 1997.]
佛克马易布斯：《二十世纪文学理论》，林书武译。北京：三联书店，1988年。
[Fokkema, Douwe, and Elrud Ibsch. Theories of Literature in the Twentieth Century. Trans. Lin Shuwu. Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 1998.]
Galan, F. W.. Historic Structures: The Prague School Project, 1928 -1946. London & Sydney: Groom Helm, 1985.
Garvin, Paul L., ed. & trans. A Prague School Reader on Esthetics, Literary Structure, and Style. Washington, D.C: Georgetown University Press, 1964.
Jakobson, Roman. Language in Literature. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press, 1987c.
Levinson, Jerrold, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Matejka, L., and I. R. Titunik, eds. & trans. Semiotics of Art. Cambridge, Mass and London, the MIT Press, 1976c.
莫砺锋：《杜甫评传》。南京：南京大学出版社，1993年。
[Mo, Lifeng. A Critical Biography of Du Fu. Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 1993.]
Mukarovsky, Jan. Aesthetic Function, Norm and Value as Social Facts. Trans. Mark E. Suino. Michigan: Ann Arbor, 1979.
[---. The Word and Verbal Art. Ed. & Trans. J. Burbank and P. Steiner. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1977.]
钱锺书：《谈艺录》。北京：中华书局，1993年。
[Qian, Zhongshu. On the Art of Poetry. Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company, 1993.]
什克洛夫斯基：《散文理论》，刘宗次译。南昌：百花洲文艺出版社，1997年。
[Shklovsky, Victor. Theory of Prose. Trans. Liu Zongci. Nanchang: Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House, 1997.]
Sterner, Peter, ed. The Prague School Selected Writings,1929-1946. Austin: University of Texas Press,1982.
托多洛夫编选：《俄苏形式主义文论选》，蔡鸿滨译。北京：中国社会科学出版社，1989年。
[Todorov, Tzvetan, ed. Théorie de la littérature. Trans. Cai Hongbin. Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, 1989.]
Veltruský, Ji?í. “ Jan Mukarovsky’s Structural Poetics and Esthetics.” Poetics Today 1980-1981 （winter）, Vol. 2, No. 1b.
Vykypel, B.. Empirical Functionalism and the Prague School. Muenchen: Lincom Eurpa, 2009.

[1]	Feng Wei. From Semiotics to Phenomenology: The Establishment of the Basic Research Methodologies in Euro-American Performance Analysis [J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2022, 42(3): 128-137.
[2]	Zhou Qichao. Retrospect and Re-exploration of Structuralism [J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2018, 38(5): 26-33.
[3]	Gu Mingdong . Post-Structuralist Poetics in the Great Preface and Some Thoughts on the Modernization of Ancient Chinese Literary Theory [J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2018, 38(3): 160-168.
[4]	Zhou Wenji . The Philosophical Art Criticism of Rosalind Krauss [J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2017, 37(1): 143-151.
[5]	Yin Zhike. The Triple Connotations of Eagleton's "Event" in The Event of Literature [J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2016, 36(6): 81-90.
[6]	Xiao Jinlong. Rewriting and Rewritology: A Poststructuralist Approach to Literary History [J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2016, 36(6): 184-192.
[7]	Chen Jun. New Changes and Redemption: On the Russian Formalism's Genre Theory [J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2015, 35(3): 139-145.
[8]	Shen Yubing, Tao Zheng. Image and the Intrusion of Antinarrative: Rosalind Krauss' Structuralist Criticism [J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2015, 35(2): 17-24.
[9]	Tan Fang. A Canon of Fantastic Literature Studies: On Tzvetan Todorov's The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre [J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2014, 34(6): 201-207.
[10]	Liu Yanshun. On the Temporality in Shklovsky's Literary Thoughts [J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2014, 34(5): 129-136.
[11]	Zhang Bi. The Application of Referent in Western Marxist Critical Theory and Its Significance [J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2014, 34(4): 204-210.
[12]	Wang Daqiao. On the Methodological Evolution and its Limitation of Literature Anthropology [J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2014, 34(2): 42-49.
[13]	Hu Yamin, Xiao Xiang. Mutiple Faces of "The Other" [J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2013, 33(4): 166-172.

Re-evaluating "Foregrounding": The Prague School's Contributions to Aesthetics

PDF (PC)

Knowledge

Abstract

Cite this article

share this article

References

Related Articles 13

Recommended Articles

Metrics

Comments