antipole

If one pole of literary endeavour can be seen as a sort of extreme naturalism – contriving to present characters and situations with the illusion of an author reporting on, rather than creating, a situation – comic novels inhabit the antipole.

Antipole, an′ti-pōl, n. the opposite pole: direct opposite.

To appeal to the reasoning powers of the scholars might conceivably provoke them to ask inconvenient questions, and might even give rise to a spirit of rationalism in the school,—the spirit which "orthodoxy" has always regarded as the very antipole to religious faith.