Although the problem of the receiver of artistic text is not in
the centre of interest of Soviet literature specialists , quite a number
of works covering this problem has already been written. The way
of presenting the category of "the receiver " and understanding it in
the context of literary work allows to distinguish three approaches
to this problem by the soviet examiners:
1) understanding the problem of the reader as a final stage of creative act, being the so c ia l process ( a . Byelecki, A. Levidov, partially , V. Prozorov);
2 ) treating the problem of the receive r as an element of the theory
of literary work ( z . Gyershkovitch, V. Prozorov);
3 ) treating the problem of the work’ s addressee as an element of
the theory of literary communication (inspiratlons of Western spec
ia lis ts dealing with semiotics taken by N. Arutyunova V. Dyemyankoy,
G. Styepanoya).
All these opinions more and more clearly evidence the formation
of the so far underestimated and neglected in the USSR branch of knowledge
about literature desoribed by the notion of "the poetics of reception"
