Dynamics of the Principles of Description of the Literary Process as a Theoretical Problem in Russian Literary Studies

Abstract

One of the leading problems of modern Russian literary criticism is the development of grounds for describing the modern literary process as a complex interaction of new communicative conditions for the existence of artistic literature, new forms of its production and consumption. Since the sphere of literary studies has been searching for universal laws for describing artistic creativity for more than two centuries, and the poetics of literature was formed within the framework of various methodological schools, that are in a state of intense discussion, there are a number of approaches that put fundamentally different meanings into the same concept. The analysis of the accepted approaches in the description of the term “literary process” in Russian literary criticism, traditional conventions in the presentation of the literary process that have developed in Russian literary criticism under the influence of global and local trends, leads to the conclusion that the study of the literary process as a theoretical problem has come to the point of the need to create a new work of a generalizing type, which is associated with the actualization and reactualization of a number of methods.