The Left Hand of the Structuralist

Abstrakt

The article describes the literary works of theoreticians associated with the leading formalist and structuralist trend in Polish literary theory. The author argues that scientific tendencies in literary theory had not been imposing constraints on the literary activity of researchers. The nature and subject matter of their work indicates that the obvious fulfillment of efforts to learn the aesthetics of literary works from the academic side, was the self-reliant artistic creativity.