The limits of aesthetic concretization determined by the composition: introductory deliberations Cover Image

Granice konkretyzacji estetycznej wyznaczane przez kompozycję: rozważania wstępne
The limits of aesthetic concretization determined by the composition: introductory deliberations

Author(s): Beata Garlej
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Aesthetics, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: the composition of a literary work;aesthetic concretization;concretization;open composition;Umberto Eco’s poetics of the open work of art;Roman Ingarden’s theory of a literary work;undefined pla

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the concept of the composition of a literary work and the aesthetic concretization as defined from the procedural point of view. The text refers to a specific definition of composition, stemming from Roman Ingarden’s theory of a literary work developed by Andrej Stoff, a literary theorist from Toruń. The main thread of the deliberations refers to the border of concretization that is lined out by the composition of a literary work. The latter, defined as the guarantee of the ontological identity of a literary work, cannot activate the “openness” category. Nevertheless, it turns out that with reference to so-called “border cases”, and the examples of architectural works of art “in progress” this restriction is not fully grounded, thus making the line of concretization difficult, if not impossible, to establish

  • Issue Year: 3/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 23-35
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish