Poetics of Roman Ingarden, The - Softcover

Falk presents the first comprehensive exposition of this great Polish phenomenologist's views of literature as art, drawing on Ingarden's writing that are relevant to the ontology of the literary work of art and to reading and the experiencing of reading. Falk explains the differences between the presented world and the real world, between presentation and representation, and between the reader's cognitive functions and his intuitions of aesthetic qualities.