Literary criticism must be scientific
Literary criticism must be scientific

Summary/Abstract: The paper by V. Kozhinov “Is structural poetics possible?” (1965) is not the first that opponents of structuralism dedicate to that question. Since the beginning of the debate, the tone and character of the charges presented to those authors that implement statistical and structural methodologies in humanistic sciences underwent a significant evolution. L. Timofeev was the first to open the discussion, introducing structuralism as suddenly revived ‘formalism’, as the repetition of an outdated stage of science. Clearly, such arguments do not even deserve a reply: it was enough to remind the forgetful colleagues that the whole matter “has already been condemned”.

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