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Process of Creation
The focal point of theoretical poetics has shifted from the older conception of notions 
and categories as fixed and classificatory to an understanding of them as components of the 
process of creation; they include both the pole of permanence and changeability. They are 
encoded in experience, in consciousness, but at the same time they undergo innovations with 

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every new application, with every new concretization of a work. This oscillation provides 
various possibilities for theoretical approaches.
One has brought poetics into relation with generalizing and synthesizing tendencies in 
contemporary scholarship. The act of creation, rather the work itself, has been examined 
primarily in its essence, which appears at the most basic levels of human activity and which 
sometimes even gives it a validity existing outside of time and space. Consequently, ways to 
link these theories to anthropology, philosophy and even to logic have become evident. 
Possibilities of maximal formalization have become evident and have also been indicated. 
Opportunities for development in the realism of contemporary semiotics (sociology) have 
been revealed. A modern formulation of constants, permanent principles and categories, 
which authors of poetics and poetic theories had been seeking, since long ago have been able 
to be realized together with this.
The other pole has led to development of theories that permit the problems of the 
work to be viewed from the opposite side; they have oriented poetics toward the individual 
artifact. Attention has been directed to the study of the system which is the starting point as 
well as the basis for the realization of the concrete work which is again, on the contrary, 
determined by a relation to the level of concrete creation. In opposition to the interest in 
reaching the permanent, general phenomena constituting the essence of a literary work, 
consideration for the oscillation between the permanent and the changeable, between a 
system an individual act of creation has primarily been asserted here, for contact with the 
work in this real shape (in its definite appearance and in its contact with the receiver) has 
made this necessary.