Out Of The Cage Of The Formalism - The Shklovsky Late Literary Thought

It is well known that Shklovsky is noted for his theory of formalism. In fact, formalism is only his early opinion, and he had corrected his former thinking in his later days and walked out of the prison-house of formalism and began to care about the human relations in society, which lied in works. But literary circles have neglected this kind of changing of the concept. So this article is trying to analyze the reason that caused the recognizing prejudice about significance, and the reason or the significance of his changing as well as his later theories.The literary activities of Shklovsky can be divided into two periods. The former is his formalism, and the later is his out of the prison-house of formalism. His later s changing is the inevitable result of his all literary theory, and it is also the symbol of his well-considered thinking. In his later days, Shklovsky has corrected his former mistaking about form and resumed the meaning of terms without hesitation. Starting from this, he elaborated his whole literary theories. He discussed all kinds of the relations between literature and other factors such as lives ^ writers ^ works > characters > the literary acceptance> functions and values of arts. In his later days, he inquired into the difference of de'familiarization on his two periods and elaborated his thought of time. And bythis way, he found the rules of literature and art and formed his whole theory system.Shklovsky underwent a long process of suffering to change his thinking. And his changing is connected with the development of literature and with the influence of the 20th literary theory. He was stubbornly adhere to his opinions when he was criticized. It is valuable that he can correct his mistaking by science manner and put forward his all viewpoints about literature.This changing benefits us a lot in two fields. One is it can give us a right way about how to understand and to distinguish and to absorb all the theory results from west world. The other is it gives us much inspiration about how to understand and to construct our own literary theories.