THE DEFINITION OF THE HISTORICAL PLACE AND MEANING OF LITERARY WORKS IN THE CONTEXT OF LITERARY PRACTICE

The article argues that the receptive aesthetics does not only enable us to understand the meaning and form of literary works in the course of history. It argues that the analysis of separate literary work demands the definition of historical place and meaning in the literary practice and in this process the passive reception of a reader and literary critic turns to active reception, to new work of an author which is able to solve formal and aesthetic issues.