THE OBJECTIVISTIC POETICS OF FORMALIST CRITICS AND REACTIONARY APPROACHES: AN INSTRUCTIVE ACCOUNT

In the general context of literary criticism, the literary work of art has been multi-dimensionally approached through the different and sometimes opposed orientations advanced by literary critics. The multiplicity of these approaches is usually concretized through two main and differently oriented approaches incarnated in the objectivistic poetics of formalist critics and the reactionary approaches that emphasize relatively a non-word constructionist treatment of the literary work. In this respect, the focus of this paper is to highlight the main differences between the two approaches to the literary work of art in the light of the thoughts of the exponent theorists of each approach.