Cognition of the Literary Work of Art

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Northwestern University Press, 1973 - Literary Criticism - 436 pages
This long-awaited translation of Das literarische Kunstwerk makes available for the first time in English Roman Ingarden's influential study. Though it is inter-disciplinary in scope, situated as it is on the borderlines of ontology and logic, philosophy of literature and theory of language, Ingarden's work has a deliberately narrow focus: the literary work, its structure and mode of existence. The Literary Work of Art establishes the groundwork for a philosophy of literature, i.e., an ontology in terms of which the basic general structure of all literary works can be determined. This "essential anatomy" makes basic tools and concepts available for rigorous and subtle aesthetic analysis.
 

Contents

Introduction
3
I The Processes Entering into the Cognition of the Literary Work of Art
19
2 Temporal Perspective in the Concretization of the Literary Work of Art
94
3 Remarks on the Cognition of the Scientific Work
146
4 Varieties of the Cognition of the Literary Work of Art
168
5 Outlook on Some Problems for the Critical Consideration of Knowledge about the Literary Work of Art
332
Afterword
421
Index
425
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Roman Witold Ingarden (February 5, 1893 – June 14, 1970) was a Polish philosopher who worked in phenomenology, ontology and aesthetics.

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