The literary Text from the Poetics of Genres to Textual Structures

Abstract

This study seeks to search for the problem of the literary text and its relationship to the issue of genre classification through the theory of genres or what is known as poetics according to Aristotle, who researched the subject of poetry and tried to search for its types, characteristics and rules, for the nature of the literary is linked to the extent to which the text respects certain standards; otherwise, the text will not have the right to be recognized as literarily legitimate by the literary institution. Poetics controls these standards and, through them, assesses literary texts, studies them, analyzes them and classifies them into higher models based on their characteristics. However, the literary text rebels against every classification and transcends the limits set by poetics, so poetics must recognize the transformations of the literary text and its dynamism, and must look at the differences rather than focusing on the similarities that unite the texts. Therefore, if poetics wants to achieve its project, it must recognize the specificity and diversity of the literary text, and proceed from it to formulate an effective dynamic conception according to the principle of textual structures.