Yuri Tinianov

Yuri Tinianov: The literary evolution

Literary history is largely dominated by an individualistic psychologist that has replaced the literary problems and reducing the literary richness with the psychology of the author. Also, this point of views psychologist was applied to problems like evolution or genesis literary.

      Literary history must meet the requirements of authenticity if want to become a science. All terms and foremost the term "literary history", should be examined. Literary history is taken from two points of view: the study of the genesis and the evolution of the literary series. According to what be analyzed will be how it is analyzed. The study of evolution must avoid the confusion of taking data from one system and used it for analysis in another system, avoid the subjective flavor.

The consideration of the work as a system can be linked with formal theories to understand the history of literature from the formal theory. The study of isolated elements (rhythm, syntax, work, theme, in prose and poetry) is helpful and thanks to this the structural hypothesis could isolate: the elements could be mingled and interact enter them in an constructive form.

          Constructive function is the ability of an element to enter in correlation with another belonging to system and outside the system. We must not fall into the comparison of elements in a system with another system without considering the constructive role.

What is a "literary event" for a time may be a only a linguistic element at another, according to the literary system in which it is situated. Isolated study of a work does not give us certainty about its construction. The autonomous function is the necessary condition for discover the literary functions and its constructive role in a particular culture.

Diego Elí Acosta Gárate