Abstract: Russian Formalism 's determining its object of study actually furnishes an answer to "what is literature", and this essential pursuit is under the influence of western traditional mode of thinking. From the system of concept and value, its concept of literary autonomy is a restatement and rewrite of independent value of aesthetic and art in the history of western literary and aesthetic theory. From " non-utility of aesthetic judgment " to " non-utility of literature and art", from "relative independence lit...