Theory of defamiliarization literary creation

The concept of "defamiliarization" was put forward by Russian formalist shklovsky. In the article Art as Skill, he compared the language of poetry with that of prose, pointing out that prose is an ordinary language, an "ordinary, economical, understandable and correct language", while poetry is "a distorted language with many obstacles". "Defamiliarization" is easily mistaken for breaking language conventions, that is, it refers to the "distorted form" of language, such as word order inversion, part-of-speech change, abnormal collocation of words and so on. In order to show the difference between literary language and ordinary daily language, only in this way can literary language have aesthetic value. In fact, this understanding only sees a minor aspect of "defamiliarization". Shklovsky put forward the theory of "defamiliarization", the purpose of which is to resist and reverse the "automation" caused by daily language to people's feelings. He said in "Art as Technology": "If we analyze the general law of feeling, then we can see that once the action becomes habitual, it becomes unconscious. For example, all our familiar movements have entered the unconscious and automatic field. If anyone recalls the feeling of holding a pen for the first time or speaking a foreign language for the first time and compares this feeling with the feeling he experienced after repeating it thousands of times, he will agree with us. " In his view, everyday language degenerates people's feelings into an "unconscious automation field". It makes people lose the freshness of things, often turning a blind eye, listening but not hearing, "life just goes up in smoke" and is swallowed up by automation. The purpose of art is to restore people's ability to feel things, and the theory of "defamiliarization" is put forward in this sense.