Abstract
"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 20th century.
First Page
81
Last Page
88
Recommended Citation
Yang, Lei. 2015. "Re-evaluating "Foregrounding": The Prague School's Contributions to Aesthetics." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 35, (2): pp.81-88. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol35/iss2/12
