Literary Work Of Art

An Investigation of the Borderlines of Ontology, Logic, and Theory of Language

Roman Ingarden author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Northwestern University Press

Published:30th Jun '79

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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 Word 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.

ISBN: 9780810105379

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 778g

415 pages