in three themes: functions of the literary work, perspectives of literary process' development and tasks of literary criticism.
Duality of scholarly and art approaches to realization literary-criticism discourse are looked through the texts of publications in the 20-30-s. The text of scholar as critic are logical, with many arguments and without emotions (K.Chekhovych, K.Studynskyi, M.Hnatyshak) and the texts of writer as critic have expression, picturesque image, wealth of literary means (M.Rudnytskyi, S.Hordynskyi, I.Krushelnytskyi).
The differentiation of ideological and aesthetic trends causes the creation of special stylistic characteristics of critics texts with dynamism, discussion, speed reaction on publications of opponents and dialogues.
Key words: literary criticism, literature journals, ideological and aesthetic trends, genre and stylistic realization.