The Study On "Bestrangement" Of Russian Formalism

"Bestrangement" is the core concept of Russian Formalism. In 1916, Victor Shklovsky advocated the theory of "Bestrangement"and tried to use it as a method of summarizing complicated feelings and expressing phenomena. From the viewpoint of Formalist, the art means to become "Bestrangement", that is to say, art makes itself more difficult to be understood so that the time used for tasting is prolonged.The basic meaning of Bestrangement is: in poem or literature, all expressive forms are not strict copies of reality, on the contrary, they are intentional violations. In literature, Bestrangement is mostly represented by three artistic tacts, including the handicap of poetic language, creative distortion and the delay of configuration. In the course of studying Bestrangement, we should exactly grasp three twains of important aesthetic categories, including Material/Tact, Literariness/Bestrangement and Literary Language/Practical Language.Bestrangement is the essential character of literature. The intent of literature is to make the expressed object strange. As a ubiquitous artistic principle, Bestrangement have firm psychologic bases. It has unique aesthetic characters and profound aesthetic value. Russian Formalist use it to study poem, novel and literary history, which brings their unique literary theory. It can be said that Bestrangement is the sticking point of Russian Formalism."Bestrangement" immediately "ran all over the world like a dog with a broken tail" after it was brought forward. It has been a source of many western theories of literature and art. Such as "Constructionism", "Deconstructionism", "Symbolism Phenomena", "Acceptance Aesthetics" and "Acceptance Theory", they all take Bestrangement as their theoretical basis. "Bestrangement"is actually one of the general laws of literature. We must understand it deeply, which will help us construct our modern literary theory.