Roman Ingarden The Literary Work Of Art Pdf =link= Jun 2026

The "quasi-sensorial" profiles (visual, auditory, etc.) through which characters and settings are presented to the reader.

A specially provocative part of Ingarden’s argument concerns the role of the reader. He refuses both the sovereignty of the text-as-fixed-object and the extreme subjectivism that casts the reader as the author of meaning. For Ingarden, the literary work is an intentional object: it is constituted in acts of consciousness that intend its strata. The author produces a text which manifests certain determinable structures, but the full realization of the work—its aesthetic completion—requires the reader’s imaginative activity. In reading, we construct or “complete” aspects of the represented world, project perspectives, and enact aspectual shapes. The work thereby occupies a liminal ontological status: it is neither wholly immanent in the physical inscription nor wholly projected by the reader’s fancy. It is an object of intentionality with a stable, norm-governed structure demanding certain interpretive tasks. roman ingarden the literary work of art pdf

Below is a generated paper summarizing the core tenets of Ingarden’s phenomenological theory of literature. The "quasi-sensorial" profiles (visual, auditory, etc

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