ABSTRACT
Literary history tends to interest itself in the genesis of literature, its contents, its relationship to external reality, the changes in its meaning wrought by time. The comparison is regarded as even more convincing if the terms compared are complex, since such complexity appears to exclude random coincidence. Reconstruction was thought successful if it came close to the author’s intent. Style analysis should contribute to thematology in the future by including all descriptive systems in these compilations arranged according to type, indicating their generic and chronological distribution. The superimposition of the descriptive system, by eliminating certain elements and combining homologous components, has laid a sort of filter or grille of actual words on the potential lexicon of the theme: so that the overall valorization of the lexicon (its historical dimension) has been limited, focused upon what was pertinent in context (the stylistic dimension).
