Arboreal and Rhizomatic Approaches: Two Ways of Creating and Reading a Literary text

The result of arboreal discourse in literary creation is to draw an unaccomplished diagram of the established concepts in the past, present and future, as well as to constitute a structured cognition. This is a center-oriented and terristorial approach. Rhizomatic approach on the other hand, disrupts the hierarchical discipline and connects the ideas and concepts in the horizontal level, in a way that text-reading will be more a process of discovering the connections and functions rather than searching for a single meaning and signification. This article, based on the ideas of J.Deleuze and others who have introduced the philosophical and epistemological principles of rhizomatic perspective, intends to show the capacities of this perspective in reading texts