重估“前景化”:布拉格学派的美学贡献

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

"前景化"是布拉格学派的重要术语之一。因其与"陌生化"的相似性,导致了学术界对前景化和陌生化、布拉格学派和俄国形式主义关系的误读。以这个术语为出发点,布拉格学派在继承的同时,克服并超越了俄国形式主义,建立了一整套复杂的结构主义美学、文学理论体系。前景化美学从根本上讲是一种语境论美学,布拉格学派的研究由此预示了20世纪美学研究中的语境论转向。

'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 thcentury.