الخطاب النقدي القديم بين احتذاء النحو و وصاية البلاغة

Abstract EN

It is commonly accepted by scholars that the concepts of early literary criticism are strongly influenced by the language sciences.

Their opinions differ only when they begin to evaluate this influence, estimate its duration, and indicate its forms.

In some books devoted to the history of criticism the influence in question is reduced to a very limited time, and supposedly concerned only the first linguists who lived before Subawaih.

This opinion is obviously not shared by many other contemporary researchers, who advocate the thesis that; the old Arab criticism is downright linguistic.

To argue this thesis, they call to ponder about the purely linguistic content of the central concept of the poetic norm "amud ach'iir", in which the three language sciences interweave: grammar, rhetoric, and prosody.

In this article, we propose to identify the traces left by the interaction that has occurred between the language sciences and criticism in ancient times.

We are particularly interested in traces of conceptual and terminological structures, through the examination of illustrative examples found in the corpus of ancient criticism.