Roman Ingarden utilizes the phenomenological method in his description of the essential features or strata of "the" literary work of art. The two books, The Literary Work of Art and The Cognition of the Literary Work of Art, taken together, constitute a full description of the acts of consciousness in the apprehension of literary works. / However, certain confusions arise concerning the notions of polyphonic harmony, aesthetic value qualities and metaphysical qualities in his description of literary works. It is not clear how they work together with the essential strata to found a literary work of art. And as related concerns, the number of essential strata and Ingarden's basis for a concretization are never fully clarified. It is argued that those confusions are the superficial symptoms of an internal methodological problem. Ingarden begins his analysis with the literary work considered as an abstract entity and not as a particular object of a reading consciousness. Following Husserl's phenomenology of perception, it appears that Ingarden makes an apparent error when he begins his analysis in the phenomenological mode of eidetic reduction. Because he has no object as such before him to reduce, it is claimed that his application of the phenomenological method is inverted. / An alternative to Ingarden's methodological procedure is presented when a "reading" or concretization of Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim is offered as an object for phenomenological reduction. The essential characteristics and their relations derived from the phenomenological reduction of this object are then compared with Ingarden's results. / The new structural relations which emerge in the reduction of a particular reading help to clarify the confusions found in Ingarden's analysis and demonstrate how the various newly described polyphonies found the presence of metaphysical qualities in literary works. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-01, Section: A, page: 0177. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1984.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75495 |
| Contributors | TAYLOR, LARRY G., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 189 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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