Art World Of Defamiliarization

As an important pioneer in the modern fantasy history of China's, Zhang Tianyi began fairy-tale writing career as early as 1920s. From his first works, The Elder and Younger Lin, published in January, 1932, Zhang's fairy tale works have long been favored by readers. Zhang Tianyi's fairy tales are the actual expressions of his understanding of the real world and judgment of the then social values, and, on the other side, harbor his sparks of transcendent illusions about the future, which make them different from the oral-tales and works of the contemporary writers in his time. Based on a thorough understanding of the Zhang's works, this article applies the "text-analysis" and "extracts-plus-comments" methods, to interpret the art and uniqueness of his works.The introduction chapter of this article, listing Zhang Tianyi's achievements in fairy tale creation and research and comparing his works with the Russian formalistic "defamiliarization theory" , points out that Zhang's fairy tales' defamiliarization, or strangeness, is made up of image building, theme expression and thinking patterns and so on.The first part of the article makes a detailed explanation of the image symbols Zhang set up in his works. The kind children, the evil children, the non-human children and the anti-traditional children images make up a...